Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

I'm so excited for the new shop, this vintage beauty is going in it when it's built. I'm also going to pick up a small engine hand operated tire machine for doing scooter tires

motormike wrote:Great machine to have at hand. I've got a few hundred laps on one.

I've been practicing a bunch with it over the last couple nights. Getting better at it. Getting good at my manual balancer, I take the wheel and put it on the balancer before I set the beads to see where it sits and then rotate the tire to balance as much as possible without weight, then set the beads and balance it all the way. This is an exciting time indeed.

Im gonna get you to rebalnce my tire rack/speedy tire bs tire job they did. my tires on my spree are also wobbling again. Pat send help

The manual tie balancer wasnt to large an investment, about $100 or less Canadian pesos I spent $50 or $60 on 4 boxes of weights and 12$ on the hammer/pliers tool for removing and installing the weights. I'm going to keep adding to the weight inventory over time now, more of the different weights. Maybe stick on weights too. Not sure how that machine works on the new alloys yet but we are going to experiment a bunch.