Balancing the Rear Wheel

[Assassin]

G’day fellas, I’m sure this topic has been done to death over the last few years, how do you balance the rear wheel of a VFR ?

I made this boss which has done me wheel, and extremely accurate for balancing… anyway, check the videos… I just made it at home on my lathe… it’s very important to bore the center and turn the ØD at the same time…

please let me know what you think…

does anyone have any other methods ?

I’ve also made similar bosses for Ducati and BMW…
 

thanks…

Edited April 15 by Assassin
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[timmoer]

Yeah my friend and I struggled with that on his Rabaconda. But somehow one of the attachments just about fit perfectly inside the center bore with a slip/slight transitional fit, so it worked out with the standard static balancer he had

 

[Captain 80s]

One of the left over bits when converting a Hawk to a VFR wheel is this center piece.  It is conical, and slightly different, on each side allowing you to use it as a spacer that the balancing shaft cone can engage.  I even used 2 of them to sandwich a Ducati wheel for a friend.

 

  

 

 

I also bought an extra spindle to mount the VFR wheel to that works darn good.  I am going to shorten it on a lathe to make it a little more handy and less bulky.

 

 

 

 

[VeeEffArah]

Finally found it, but from the other sandbox. Made a couple of them and works pretty darn good. Not $3 any longer thought... LOL

 

https://vfrworld.com/threads/6th-gen-interceptor-3-00-rear-wheel-balancing-adapter.47822/

 

 

[Mohawk]

Just take it to your nearest car tyre place. Fits nicely on a car wheel balancer & costs tuppence to get done👍

[FromMaine]

Assassin:

Beautiful machining, took me a minute to figure out how to open your links, but got there in the end. Nice work mate.

 

For the rest of us, I would suggest keeping an eye out for one of these. They used to be in every Harbor freight before being discontinued maybe 8-10 Years ago. I would bet there are quite a few members here that have one.

 

Also, in the past when I have gone cross country knowing my tires would never make it back to Maine. I would carry my tire irons and Dyna beads and Send the tires ahead. Some of my friends had nothing, one had a compressor, none had a balancing stand. A couple of 2 X4's and a garage door would be enough to break the bead, swap the tire, add Dyna beads and be on my way. Never had a problem, but I do prefer to balance all my tires staticly. Just a thought.

 

PS, ignore the overstay on the adaptor. That's me when repainting my rear rims.

 

 

 

 

 

[FromMaine]

Upside down photos make my head hurt, sorry.

[bmart]

I have one of those and another for the "other" size balancing shaft/rod/bar. I just sold the two Ducati ones I've had for decades!

[JZH]

I have an alloy adapter just like that one; never knew Harbor Freight used to sell them!  I bought mine from some small shop dealing in Hawk GT mods, way back in the day.

 

People used to use Schedule 40 PVC pipe adapters and such to fit the wheel onto a standard wheel balancer.  The general consensus was that (a) the adapter doesn't have to be precisely machined to function, and (b) balancing the rear wheel was not even considered necessary by many riders.  I was always firmly in the "precision balancing or bust" camp...

 

FYI, Captain, the 17" rear wheel conversions for NC30s required cutting down (what's the turning phrase for that operation?) of the locating flange on the axle to make it flat like an RC36 axle, and I recall UK NC30 guru Rick Oliver mentioning that it was made from hardened steel and thus, a real pain to cut down.  How big is your lathe?

 

Ciao,

 

JZH