If so...bubble or spin balance?

Did it make any difference?

 

I've never had too, nor have I ever heard of anyone having too. If you got a wabble it is more than likley a bent Rim.

 

My thinking is there are an ever larger number of machines out there that will go speeds approaching normal cruising, for cars. There are also a lot of guys putting BIG tires on their machines and most quad tires, even OEM, have a lot of rubber. I'm certainly not of the mind that ATV tire mfgrs build these tires with the same specs they do car tires.

I'm just wondering if we've grown so used to the "non-smooth" nature of these things - and certainly most of the time speeds are low - we don't think about it. I'm also wondering, if the tires were balanced, it might be noticeable enough to warrant doing. Someone must have done it.

Mine aren't bent - that I'm aware - but what the hell do I know.

 

Trying to balance tires is a bad idea. Had a couple of people atempt this on their desert quads that will run in the 80mph range...Smoothed out things till one of the weights came loose from all the pounding and put a hole through his fender and lodged a piece in his case. If that bullet had come off in a different place, he would have been, for lack of a better term, shot by the weight.

TPR

 

I have balanced tires for my quads that had annoying bar vibration, I use tape weights on the inside rim surfaces. To do a proper balance they need to be spun with weights installed where needed to correct static and dynamic imbalances. The larger atv tires have poor uniformity compared to car tires, balancing helps a great deal. I eliminated my bar shake after the tires were balanced....

 

My 2006 Sportsman 500EFI came with 26" tires and they were balanced with weights on them from the factory. Smooth ride and no weights lost yet.