What are good replacement rear tires for a Roadsmith HTS and what is the best way to balance them ?
What are good replacement rear tires for a Roadsmith HTS and what is the best way to balance them ?
Good question, I'm following this thread. Balance and protection, I use Ride-On, you can read about it here an get comments as well, there's also an official Ride-On link.
https://www.amazon.com/Ride-Tire-Bal...ews/B00DX8BTUG
My current replacements are Michelin MXW4 or something like that. They are no longer made. Personally, whenever I change these I will look for an all season touring tire that has an "open" style tread to better channel water away.
As far as balancing I take my wheels to my local Chevy dealer and have them Road Force balanced. Has worked well so far. I'm not a fan of liquid anything in my tires. Beads can be used as supplemental balancing material but tires must be weight balanced also because they require lateral balancing. Check out this link:
http://www.innovativebalancing.com/
Wing with Roadsmith kit, Traxxion Ak20 cartridges and Accuride System.
07 ST 1300 for two-wheeled fun!
Jerry "Gold Rush" (aka: "SPOOK") San Angelo, TX
2015 GL1800/Roadsmith HTS1800
TOI - IBA #23804 (SS1K & BB1.5K)
I'm like an old race horse..... I can still run the race -- Just ache more at the finish line and need more rest between outings.
Thanks for the responses. I’m Thinking about Michelin Premiers . I have them on my wife’s CRV and they seem to be a good tire. Anyone have any thoughts on that tire ?
You might pose this question over on the 'other forum', the more 'eyes' the more answers you might get. Having said that, I'm not a fan over there, jus sayin.....
Since you have automoblile wheels and tires there is no reason not to have them properly balanced. Road Force is the best
I recently put em on and they seem to be doing fine. I've been caught in the rain a couple of times and they seem to channel the water pretty good. I run 22 in em when I'm solo and 24 when 2-up w/trailer. As others have stated, force balance is the way to go. I used dyna-beads and originally had a balance issue when I first mounted em. I broke back em down and moved from the yellow dot to the red dot mark at the valve stem, then added another 1/2 oz of beads. All was good from there on out. A force balance would have easily handled that and saved me time and work.
I just put new tires on my RoadSmith, and went to Cooper tires, balanced were purchased.
Good to know you can to a regular tire store, buy the tires and get it done.