Amazing GL1800 Wheel Balancers
Balancing your wheels, front or rear, usually only takes place when its time to replace your tyres, yet we seem to forget the reason why we actually pay for this small service. The main benefits of a perfectly balanced wheel are numerous, smooth ride, better steering, longer tyre life, better grip, the list goes on. So why is it we leave all of this to chance. Surely one of the balance weights can come loose and disappear, never to be noticed .
until the next tyre change, and without constant checking all those benefits that we happily paid for can be lost forever
Well no longer. WingStuff based in the USA are selling the new Centramatic wheel balancers for the GL1800, they are for both solo’s and trike outfits. Watch the video, you will be amazed at the effectiveness of the product and how simple the idea is. Pity they don’t do them for the GL1500.
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Big Wing | Jul 4, 2010 | Reply
Fascinating video, Bob – well found. At $250/set, I’m not yet convinced I’ll be rushing to buy some of these automatic wheel balancers though!
Mind you, if I did want to buy a set, I’d be confused by the dropdown options on the WingStuff page you link to. Have you figured out why it says a kit for a trike comes as a ‘Set of 2′ balancers, whilst a kit for a solo comes as a ‘Set of 3′?!
Bob | Jul 5, 2010 | Reply
Thanks Nigel, but credit must go to Frank Goodman who put me on to this for the website.
It looks like they have made an error in the drop down options box. Obviously the three piece set is for the trike. Price for the two piece (solo) at under $200 sounds a lot better. Thinking about it though, a decent engineer could probably knock these up for little money, plus if it works in an separate rotating disc, would it not work with the ball bearings direct in the tyre. You could still add the required damping fluid. Now thats a thought. I’m sure some engineer or physicist will come up with the answer.
Graham Pinder | Jul 5, 2010 | Reply
I’m sure something that does the same job as this is not beyond the capabilities of our very own Bill, you never know what might emerge from his workshop, remember the ‘swiper’?