Will have to mention that wheel balancing can be important in some situations... if you are like my friend who rides a 69cm frame and descends at speeds in excess of 70 kmh on his road bike and tandem there is this thing called a death wobble that can happen.

It stems from some designers not making proper adjustments for much larger frame sizes which can cause them to become unstable at speed and a poorly balanced wheel can oscillate and start to throw the bike off.

He said this does not happen with his custom frames and he has one of our tandems that he can ride no handed at 70kmh but off the peg frames can be notorious for this.

He does balance his wheels because he goes fast enough that imbalances do have a negative effect on his ride and can impact his safety.

The same thing happens with cars.... some will run smoothly at city speeds but once you hit highway speeds you might discover your wheels are not as well balanced as you'd like.

Motorcycle wheels also need to be carefully balanced as you don't want a death wobble at high speed and used to take my old bike up to 260 kmh and have it remain as smooth as silk.

But on a bicycle, at normal speeds... a few grams of weight means nothing.