Originally Posted by
dabac
Bicycle wheels are rarely balanced. You'll notice that a wheel spinning freely will always stop with the same point at the lowest.
The common opinion is that there's not enough functional improvement to merit the effort of balancing bike wheels.
With the weight of a rider pressing down, spin rate, weight etc, it simply doesn't matter.
But the unbalance is still big enough to be easily seen when spinning a wheel in a stand.
If it bothers you, balance the wheel.
Let it settle, add weight to the highest point.
Spin, let settle, add more.
Continue until the wheel will settle at no defined point.
Yea I get that but this is quite a bit more severe. I'll see if I can get a video later as well as check the other bearing. The shake rattles the whole bike on the stand and seems to occur at the same section of the wheel/hub rather than shaking constantly. I don't notice it too much while riding but thought it might be related to the hub catching at a similar rhythmic pattern which only happens while I ride and not on the stand. The wheel is slightly out of balance but nothing I usually worry about.