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Old 04-25-2011, 01:27 AM
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Ride on cleans up really easy with a little water. i bought some to try and never used it. Have dyna beads in rear, front is still stock tire with no wheel weights at all. Guess I need to sell the Ride On, or maybe I'll use it next time............Those who use it swear by it.
 
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Old 04-25-2011, 06:23 AM
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i would be concerned if some of the liquids can freeze during the winter. i can imagine getting up and needing to go somewhere when it's cold out and the tires bopping up and down the road like the easter bunny hopping on down the bunny trail. and yeah, happy belated easter.
 
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Old 04-25-2011, 06:35 AM
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I used dyna beads and I will return to wheel weights on next tire change. The weights are attached to the rim and when riding over bumps and road imperfections they remain in place attached to the rim, not bouncing all over the place inside the tire unattached and throwing the balance off. they work nice in a perfect world. MI roads are far from perfect.
when riding over highway repairs, where they repair every other slab of cement, you can really notice the beads in the tires and they're just all over the place making the bumps even worse.

Dayna Beads=Snake Oil
 
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Old 04-25-2011, 07:30 AM
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Tried using the stuff just once when I regularly ran well into the three digits.Always found that when cresting a 100mph the front wheel would start to hop,pushing into the 120mph range it started to taper off.Never used the stuff again,may not have been a fair test but was all I needed.
 
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Old 04-25-2011, 07:37 AM
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I recently tried this product called Ride On. It is suppose to balance the tire, extend tire life due to making the tire run a bit cooler and also plug a hole they say up to 1/4 inch. It has the consistency of the product slime but is a pale orange color. It worked very well to balance my tire and I hope I don't find out how well it plugs a hole but if I do have that problem, I'll report back. I figure it will be a mess when I need to change my tire. I change my own tires (No -Mar tire machine) so I'll be the one dealing with the mess. Just adding my 2 cents.
 
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Old 04-25-2011, 11:00 AM
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Yrs ago I used a product called Balance Plus,same as Ride on .I never balanced my tires .I just had a slow leak in sidewall of rear tire.I didnot want to fix it cause it was only losing 5lbs a wk.I found some NOS balance plus(currently using Dyna Beads) and added it.Guess what no more slow leak.
 
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