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EAST TX: 2nd Saturday Breakfast - La Plazita, 11980 Hwy 64 75704

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Breakfast was great, good to meet everyone today. Got my eastern Texas loop completed and missed all the rain except the little bit of mist that was present when I left, and even that was short lived and gone by the time I got to Gladewater.
 
BMW Tire Change
All, I just bought new tires for my r1250 gsa for the first time. This is when I realized no local shops are able to help balance. They can change the tire, balance the front, but the back takes some special adapter to static balance.
I would love to hear how you guys have handled this so I can learn.

Thanks in advance,
Mitchell Rose
 
bberry7 said:
BMW Tire Change
All, I just bought new tires for my r1250 gsa for the first time. This is when I realized no local shops are able to help balance. They can change the tire, balance the front, but the back takes some special adapter to static balance.
I would love to hear how you guys have handled this so I can learn.

Thanks in advance,
Mitchell
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I’ve used an adapter/balancer from Marc Parnes on my big hole beemer bikes. He also makes a cool stick coil tool as well

I would think, per gixxerjasen’s post, if you get a good maker file or draw your own, you could definitely 3-d print an adapter
 
Thanks for the input.
Using Marc's tool looked like a great path.
Marc is currently in the hospital about to undergo heart surgery tomorrow. He was going to ship one out yesterday but they held him in the hospital until surgery. I told him to just take care.
Wondrlich also has a hub adapter.
The 3-D printer was very interesting ... it's just beyond my capabilities.
I've watched a fair number of YouTube videos at this point that I think I can get the old tires off and new on. The largest challenge seems to come back to balancing ... especially the rear wheel.
 
When I had my BMW, I was able to get the rear wheel balanced by an auto tire shop. They used their spin balancer just like a car tire. No issues at all.
Cost me $20.00 per wheel to remove the old tire and install and balance the rear, and remove and mount the front tire. I used my balancer in my shop for the front. $40.00 total.
 
 
I ended up driving over to Plano to an indie bike shop (Woven) who did the mounting and balancing for $30 each which I thought was a pretty good deal. Now I have new treads and can ride .. the "emergency" is over. Next step is to focus on what I'm going to do long term for the future tire changes/balances.
Looking at No-Mar ... looks interesting. Trying to weigh convenience with $.
At $400+ for the changer and $300 for the balancer, that's 10 tire changes and drives to Plano to break even.
 
bberry7 said:
I ended up driving over to Plano to an indie bike shop (Woven) who did the mounting and balancing for $30 each which I thought was a pretty good deal. Now I have new treads and can ride .. the "emergency" is over. Next step is to focus on what I'm going to do long term for the future tire changes/balances.
Looking at No-Mar ... looks interesting. Trying to weigh convenience with $.
At $400+ for the changer and $300 for the balancer, that's 10 tire changes and drives to Plano to break even.
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Or just buy the adapters that you need and rig up the rest.

-Jeff
 
Breakfast meet coming up, I'll be getting my usual Hwy 64 West plate (dang, I'd be a boring old man if it weren't for motorcycles :lol:)
 
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I'm fully wheeled up and functional this month, so I'll likely show up and order my usual French toast plate -
and hope it doesn't have a hair on it like that one time last year (I got a free meal because of that, but still 🤮).
 
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