Bead balancing. Does it work or is it snake oil.

Does bead balancing work or is it snake oil?

  • It works

    Votes: 13 68.4%
  • It's snake oil

    Votes: 6 31.6%

  • Total voters
    19

This is very true about the mind when it's closed! It's what magicians count on. (and snake oil salesmen too for that matter)
 

I'm about to change my Michelin Pilot Road III's on my Mean Streak, it'll be my third set. First set got a bit over 10k with machine balanced weight, second set, on now, I'm over 11k miles and could prolly push them over 12k if I wanted to make a point. Oh, I'm known for riding my bikes like scalded Cheetahs as well.
 

you stated earlier that you were using dyna beads but now you say "machine balanced"weight? It's really good mileage either way but which do you prefer, or are you doing both?
 
you stated earlier that you were using dyna beads but now you say "machine balanced"weight? It's really good mileage either way but which do you prefer, or are you doing both?
Yeah, follow the thread, I'm running dyna beads in the second set of Pilot road 3's. What we had here was a failure to communicate!
 

Very interesting! Thanks for posting that.
 
Thanks for the replies, folks. From what I'm reading, it sounds like beads or RideOn may be good options. (I had never heard of RideOn before or, rather, I didn't know it was for balancing.) I have wondered, however, and as someone pointed out here, why race drivers and riders apparently don't use these balancing methods if they work so well. Perhaps it because of the extreme conditions of racing(?) I have read somewhere (I don't know if it's true) that most competition motorcycle racers use old-fashioned static balancing. Does anyone know if that's true?
 
@ZoneIII
It does say yes or no, only two choices are offered and then you are directed to to cast your vote.
@TriumPhil is absolutely correct!
 
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