For whom the bell tolls
What's the deal with tyre placement on the rim? I've heard people saying that there is a mark which is supposed to be either aligned with, or positioned opposite the tyre valve?
I'll be paying to get it balanced, but $60 is bit steep to get the tyres swapped for this poor student.
Tyres are Pirelli SuperCorsa Pro's
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His Excellency
$60 is alot cheaper than repainting/repairing your rim after you possibly cark lumps of alloy out with levers if your new to doing tyres.
The dots generally refer to the lightest part of the tyre , to be aligned with the valve stem. Not sure with the corsa's though.
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After watching the balancing being done and having had it explained to me, I thought that was the easy part. Theres nothing to a balancing machine at all..
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sports tubeless tyres are pretty straight forward dosent take much to get em off/on balancing isint that hard either
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That'd be $60 from cycletreads then?
+ the $6 for getting rid of them (unless you're taking them home)
Better than $35 from botany honda... for one.... after taking the rim into them!
At least you can ride up to cycletreads and they do it all for ya!
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Mike at Drury performance (ex treads) swapped my front discs + tyre twice over about an hour, I just took the bike in and he did everything, cost me $40. You could give him a ring see what he'd charge just to quickly swap a tyre.
yes Sir!
Thats $60 off the bike, its only $40 if you take the rims in to them!Originally Posted by R6_kid
get the top of a bucket and use it over the rim so you dont fuckit!
Tearing Choppa a new A'Hole
Quite frankly, if you'll pay to get 'em balanced, it's worthwhile getting them to fit 'em at the same time.
Drury tyres look after people real well but it's probably a bit far for you.
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Mememe
If you're keen to learn it, youtube videos on fitting and DIY balancing.
With 2 levers and a rim protector you can fit any tyres easily.
MFSC rises again
its so easy bro!
i did like 8 tyre swaps at hampton downs the other thursday on chops bike.
helps having a bead brecker aswel!
takes like 10mins to take rims off and change rubber and rims back on!
MFSC lives on!
salty dog
fitting tyres not that hard.....watch a few good videos on it on the net first if you haven't done it before....
balancing pretty straight forward to..
depends on your attitude as well,
Personaly I like to at least be able to do everything myself.....
Then it becomes a choice wether you want to do it yourself or pay somebody else...
NOt lack of options
Opinions are like arseholes: Everybody has got one, but that doesn't mean you got to air it in public all the time....
MFSC rises again
balancing?? who does that these days?
MFSC lives on!
Tearing Choppa a new A'Hole
People that don't want vibrations through the bike.
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MFSC rises again
just get robert taylor to set it up sweet then
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Tearing Choppa a new A'Hole
Yeah, coz Robert's a real whiz at balancing wheels.
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