Gasman5.0
Training Wheels
I have worn my PR2's balanced with dyna beads out at 7,000 miles to the steel belt showing. This is single rider no passenger use and I am an air pressure Nazi so aired to 40-42 for the life of the tire. Previous set of PR2 lasted the same 6800 miles and were dynamic balanced wore to belts showing also. My impression I can't honestly tell any difference in wear,balance are vibration between traditional weights and beads. Both balancing methods seemed to cup identical as they wear also. Now the reason I wanted to share this you guys is what I seen when the bead filled tires where dismounted this past Sunday. Some of the beads in both front and rear tires had removed rubber from the tire and adhered to the beads. The beads all had a dark look to them as they are bright white when new and there is a noticeable wear path from where the beads run in the tire. I could mash on the rubber coated beads 1 at a time and most of the rubber would come off fairly easy but slow. I then dumped all the coated ones I could pick out into a bowl and tried mashing them together which was a lot faster removing the rubber nonce I had them kinda cleaned up I still had several coated ones in the bulk of the beads I had poured out. I dumped the remaining ones in the bowl and began working them between my thumb and the bowl to remove the rubber on the few left. I couldn't believe what was happening as I did this. The rubber started to build up on the side of the from fairly clean looking beads. The pics that I attached are from the rear tire only. The front had the same rubber issue I just did not take as many pics.