| Author | Message | ||
     Whitetrashxb |
should i remove the rotors? or since these are part of the rotating mass, should they stay? what about the sprocket? i also read that the weights have to be mounted on the rotor side of XB wheels. Is this true? i'm taking the rims to an independant cycle shop to have their first set of M1s mounted, and wanted to make sure everything is done correctly. thanks, james | ||
| M1combat |
Make sure you tell them to protect the rim in some fashion. The local Honda shop took a bit of the powder coat off of mine and swapped the tires for free the next time. That time was fine. The next time they took a strip about 1/3 of the way around the rim off. They bought me a new rear rim and now refuse to do business with me... As if it was MY fault. I believe the method used for the ONE out of THREE times that they didn't do damage to the rim was that they wrapped both of the "lips" of the rim in duct tape. To answer your question... I don't think you need to remove anything from the rim itself. BTW... You'll love the M1's. | ||
| Wyckedflesh |
Leave the rotors on. Also take a piece of masking tape and mark an arrow showing the direction of rotation on both the pulley and front rotor. This way they don't accidentally mount the tires backwards and try to weasel out of swapping it back around right. | ||
| Dcmortalcoil |
When the wheel is balanced, everything that is attached to the wheel must remain attached. I have a very sensitive balancer, and I tried to see if the balancing changes with and without the rotor and the pulley. The balance essentially remained the same with the rotor, but changed with pulley. There's always going to be a heavy point to every rim (w/o the tire). I marked mine. I tell the wheel guy to align the light point marker on the tire with the heavy point on the rim. Sometimes they balance out so that you don't need any weight. Otherwise, the tire guys typically align the marker on the tire to the valve stem, which is not necessarily the heavy side. I had two rear wheels, and both have the heavy side located diametrically opposite the valve stem. | ||
| Whitetrashxb |
thanks fellas  |
