to the poster that said they were not for car tires. I know one of the 4x4 forums I used to frequent, really liked them for the large off road tires that are hard to balance and usually require a lot of weight. Other people have suggested the ...air soft pellets, and things of that nature. Lead isn't suitable since it can sort of glob together. Moisture in the tire can cause certain metallic beads to corrode together, etc.

 

Ive used them on all my bikes....Never a complaint

 

I've been using them for the last 7,000 miles - haven't noticed any difference since changing over from wheel weights.

 

Makes sense to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq263AYgyYg

 

I've been using them for a while now with no issues. I had thought that my missing weights that flew off were causing the front tire to wobble so I added the beads and it didn't help because it was actually the spokes out of true... But once I fixed that the bike felt smoothe. So I can't say it fixed a problem, but it did get rid of those weights.

 

Guess it's not a bad way to troubleshoot a wheel issue. Beats pulling the wheel to have it checked. Though I think I read somewhere, maybe on their website, that they won't fix a wobble issue.

I have some vibration issues with my Heritage that start at about 65 and get progressively worse as the speed increases. I suspect the front wheel may be out of true but I may try the dyna beads to rule out the wheel being out of balance.

Hope that's the problem, not looking forward to having to have the wheel retrued. Sounds like a time consuming project.

 

if someone is going to switch to them, maybe they can go for a ride with tires balanced with weights, go for a ride(same road) without the weights, then add the beads and give a highly technical report as to noticeable differences?

In the video above, If I heard him correctly, he has a 20 gram weight to which he adds an ounce of beads. converting, he added more beads than the weight, which makes me wonder if a tire requires ...say 2 ounces of weight, wouldn't you want to add more than 1 ounce of beads?

 

This is my first year using them and I have noticed a difference. I'll keep on using them from now on.

 

My front tire had 2 strips of 4 each 1/4oz weights, 1 strip on each side. That's 2 ozs total. I added 1 oz of beads. It runs fine.

 

One fairly interesting test I read about... http://www.***************.com/board...hp?showforum=9

Link is screwed. Forum keeps messing with it. Sorry. Working to see what the deal is.

Oh, I get it. No link to the forum I'm referencing comes up. Must be something about competitor forum. Well, geez. PM me if you want the info.