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[Chief]

Luv 'em! I use them on 35" Mud tires on my truck. A friend has one of those miniature choppers, good to about 65 mph. He had a terrible wobble that cleared up completely with some beads I gave him.

Your experience is very similar to those of others I've read. Still no idea why MCN trashed them.

[Chief]

I got a box in the mail yesterday with my Dyna Beads. First off, they're VERY dense and very very tiny. They're smaller than the '.' on my keyboard. I was expecting something much bigger. The way they cling to the inside of the plastic bags had me entertained for way too long too. 

I decided to put them into the bike tires yesterday so I set off to do that.

First thing I did was to get two identical shot glasses to split the 6 oz. of beads into equal parts although it's really not that important. I then rigged up a funnel on the end of a tube that was large enough to just work down over the valve stem.

I put the tire in the wheel vise of the table and removed the valve core. I slipped the tube over the end of the valve stem and filled the funnel. I then went to dump them in and they rolled down the tube and got stuck in the valve stem. They were right, you have to do it slowly. No problem, I loosened the wheel and rolled it so the little suckers came out of the valve stem and remounted the wheel and tried again, this time just allowing a small steady stream of the little guys to roll down the tube and into the tire.

It took about 10 minutes for the first tire and about 5 minutes for the second one as I got better at gauging how fast I could feed them in.

I then removed the ugly and dirty wheel weights from both wheels. I had 2.5 oz. on each wheel. They look so much better all smooth and shiny with no visible weights. And now I don't have to worry about hurling weights anymore.

I'll be putting the other 20 oz. of beads in the truck this afternoon and drive it to Bushtec on Saturday. I don't have a balance problem now, but the idea behind these is that I'll never have to balance the tires again and it will increase tire life since they will always be balanced. Too good to be true? Maybe, but for $50 total, it's a pretty cheap experiment to find out.

I'll report back after the Bushtec trip.

[Eqcons]

I got a box in the mail yesterday with my Dyna Beads. First off, they're VERY dense and very very tiny. They're smaller than the '.' on my keyboard. I was expecting something much bigger. The way they cling to the inside of the plastic bags had me entertained for way too long too. 

I decided to put them into the bike tires yesterday so I set off to do that.

First thing I did was to get two identical shot glasses to split the 6 oz. of beads into equal parts although it's really not that important. I then rigged up a funnel on the end of a tube that was large enough to just work down over the valve stem.

I put the tire in the wheel vise of the table and removed the valve core. I slipped the tube over the end of the valve stem and filled the funnel. I then went to dump them in and they rolled down the tube and got stuck in the valve stem. They were right, you have to do it slowly. No problem, I loosened the wheel and rolled it so the little suckers came out of the valve stem and remounted the wheel and tried again, this time just allowing a small steady stream of the little guys to roll down the tube and into the tire.

It took about 10 minutes for the first tire and about 5 minutes for the second one as I got better at gauging how fast I could feed them in.

I then removed the ugly and dirty wheel weights from both wheels. I had 2.5 oz. on each wheel. They look so much better all smooth and shiny with no visible weights. And now I don't have to worry about hurling weights anymore.

I'll be putting the other 20 oz. of beads in the truck this afternoon and drive it to Bushtec on Saturday. I don't have a balance problem now, but the idea behind these is that I'll never have to balance the tires again and it will increase tire life since they will always be balanced. Too good to be true? Maybe, but for $50 total, it's a pretty cheap experiment to find out.

I'll report back after the Bushtec trip.

That's it Chiefy, you've mastered the technique! 

I note you've put 3oz in each tyre, I only used 2oz, and it seems fine.

Like you, I was very entertained by the static effect in the bag, to the extent that I keep my spare bag here on my desk as an executive toy! 

Jim

[Chief]

That's it Chiefy, you've mastered the technique! 

I note you've put 3oz in each tyre, I only used 2oz, and it seems fine.

Like you, I was very entertained by the static effect in the bag, to the extent that I keep my spare bag here on my desk as an executive toy! 

Jim

The reccomend 2 oz. for a motorcycle tire, but I already had 2.5 oz. (10 segments) stuck on each wheel, so I went with 3 oz. because too much is better with these things than too little.

Now, I'm ready to go out and try them. "If I only had a bike." (Sung to the tune of If I Only Had a Brain from The Wizard of Oz).

[spydglide]

Is it practical to 'save' um when you change tires?    spyder

[TN]

Is it practical to 'save' um when you change tires?    spyder

guess ya could but they're pretty cheap.

cost me 5 bucks a tire...



TN

[Eqcons]

Is it practical to 'save' um when you change tires?    spyder

Yes, so they say.

Jim

[Hoist!]

i've been using the dyna beads since my last tire change on my FLHRSE3, elite III's with 2 oz in each tire. ....

i just got some more to go in my fltr. but haven't got to put em in.

i'm sold,  heck i use a fitch fuel catalyst for fuel stabilization so WTFDIK.




good luck

TN

And you tried to sell me a fairing too! You wanna buy a bridge? I got one in Brooklyn!!!

Hoist!

[Hoist!]

you're right my friend, it won't happen again.

now tell me bout yer bridge.



TN

 

Hoist!

[Chief]

For obvious reasons I haven't tried out the ones in the bike, but I did put about 500 miles on the truck today with 5 oz. in each tire.

I don't currently have a balance problems that I'm trying to cure, but merely testing this to see if it maintains balance as the tires wear.

All I can say is that putting 5 oz. in each tire did not cause a balance problem. At 75 mph all the way, it was silky smooth. It's a 3/4 ton running empty with 55 psi so it's not a cushy ride, but on nice smooth blacktop, it was perfect. This proved to me that they don't cause problems, which is half the battle. Now, when I have 60,000 miles on the truck, somewhere like 10 years down the road, I'll know if they work.  I live pretty close to work so I don't rack up the big miles.

[spydglide]

Thanks, Chief.  The more I read you guys' reports on these little buggers, the more I realize I'm gonna have to break down and try some.  har!  spyder

[Chief]

Thanks, Chief.  The more I read you guys' reports on these little buggers, the more I realize I'm gonna have to break down and try some.  har!  spyder

Right now I can't tell you if they do what they claim. I can tell you that they don't throw a tire OUT of balance. That's half the battle.

If you do, go ahead and get one of the smallest bag just to keep on your desk. The dance those little guys do because of a static charge is pretty cool.

[TN]

i put 2oz in each tire on my fltr and its smooth as silk. the ease and cost of this alone should make everyone try it.

they do dance a bit while in the package.



TN

[Chief]

Yesterday I took my wheels off and took them to a local motorcycle tire shop to remove the Dyna Beads.

Putting Dyna Beads in: $6.

Removing Dyna Beads: $61 ($19 for chrome lead stick-on weights)

Lesson learned from another failed experiment: Priceless.

In my case, I think the problem is how badly out of balance my wheels and tires are. I'm running over 2.5 oz (10 squares of lead) on both tires. That's HUGE amounts of lead for a motorcycle. We tried to clock the rear tire to see if that was the problem and then it was 3.75 oz out of balance.

My guess is that the beads will work better when there's less of a balancing act they need to do. In my case, I was asking just too much from them.

When these tires are in need of being replaced, I'll be making sure to get the wheels balanced before new tires are put on. Hopefully then I won't need so much lead.

I'm NOT saying Dyna Beads don't work, they just didn't work for my badly out of balance wheels and tires.

On to the next experiment........

[Eqcons]

Yesterday I took my wheels off and took them to a local motorcycle tire shop to remove the Dyna Beads.

Putting Dyna Beads in: $6.

Removing Dyna Beads: $61 ($19 for chrome lead stick-on weights)

Lesson learned from another failed experiment: Priceless.

In my case, I think the problem is how badly out of balance my wheels and tires are. I'm running over 2.5 oz (10 squares of lead) on both tires. That's HUGE amounts of lead for a motorcycle. We tried to clock the rear tire to see if that was the problem and then it was 3.75 oz out of balance.

My guess is that the beads will work better when there's less of a balancing act they need to do. In my case, I was asking just too much from them.

When these tires are in need of being replaced, I'll be making sure to get the wheels balanced before new tires are put on. Hopefully then I won't need so much lead.

I'm NOT saying Dyna Beads don't work, they just didn't work for my badly out of balance wheels and tires.

On to the next experiment........

That's a shame, Chiefy.  They work just great for me.....  I'll be putting a new back tyre on in the next couple of weeks, so perhasp things wont work out then, time will tell.

Jim