New Rear Tire!

[yamaha fj rider]

Next time try removing the weights and balancing the rim before you mount the new tire. mark the heavy spot with some masking tape, then line up the colored dot on the new tire with the masking tape and rebalance when it is mounted. You may find you need less weights to balance the wheel/tire this way. Also, if you keep the old weights, you can attach them with tape to figure out how many you need to use. That way you can just count the number you need and cut them off your strip of new weights and stick them on.

The Conti Motions don't have a balance dot. I was doing the same thing till I switched to the Motions.

I think it is about 50/50 on tires having the balance dots.

Kurt