Originally Posted by
Lenton58
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Most of my wheel-sets are tubular types, so moving tires is not an option, but it's an excellent idea to remember.
Your welcome. But again keep in mind that an out of balance bicycle wheel and tire is a very rare occurrence and even more rare on a tubular. Even if after spinning a wheel and the heavy part settles and you don't put a counter weight on the opposite side you will rarely notice it vibrating while riding. A bicycle wheel does not have the weight or width of car tire or motorcycle tire, nor will it exceed 45mph, so to feel an unbalance wheel is extremely rare. I never fuss about it quite frankly, and only had to fuss about it 2 maybe 3 times in 40 years of riding! I got a new set of tires, installed them and took off riding, came down a mountain road and at about 42 mph felt a slight vibration fade in which then faded back out at around 48 mph. The fact that the vibration started at a certain speed then went away at a higher certain speed told me it was a harmonic balancing problem caused by something out of balance. And since I knew the rims were fine before it had to be the tire, so I pulled over and moved the tire 1/8th, retested and much to my dismay it was worse so I pulled over again and moved it back the other way and 1/8th past the original starting point, and retested and the vibration was gone.
Like I said if you mount the tires with the center of the tire label over top of the valve hole, and the computer magnet opposite of the valve it should balance fine.
If a vibration is always there regardless of speed then it's not harmonic thus it's not a out of balance wheel, you have some other issue going on.