Tire balancing - without weights (in the conventional sense)

Last month I mounted up tires onto my bike. I didn't bother to balance them and they worked more-or-less OK.I went on a little ride-about yesterday and noticed that at high speeds I would get a tiny bit of vibration from the bike. It wasn't as bad as when I ad bent my front wheel, but it was a bit of buzziness that I could feel around 80-90 miles per hour.When I got home I remembered that I have some dynabeads that I had harvested from some previous tire changes. These are little zirconium oxide milling media beads that have been repurposed for something else. I measured two of them and they came to 0.0327" and 0.0404" -- like I said, small.They come in a tube that are measured out in ounces. I put in two ounces in the rear and a hair less than that in the front. (These are re-used beads, so when I un-mounted the previous set of tires I lost some) All I needed to do was remove the valve core and slowly dribble them into the tire through the valve.I screwed in the valve cores and reinflated the tires with my new air compressor (more on that later) and took a test ride.Like glass.  :-)

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In case someone is looking for better pricing by buying "milling media" instead of "tire balancing stuff" you can look at Glen Mills and search for " 7305-000010" which is their zirconium oxide beads in the 0.08 - 0.10 mm size range. $9.45 a pound is what they're going for as I'm writing this.I have a few pounds stashed away that I got in a group buy on AdvRider a while back. I think it'll last me a little while.

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