Wewalaw wrote:
Bought the Ride-On to use when I swap my spokes to cast wheels. How do you remove weights from the cast wheels?

Greg

The wts that were on my cast wheels were just glued on. Actually a real good double sided tape.

Thanks DaveJ

They appear stuck on by tape or glue. Didn't want to damage wheel finish prying them off.

LeeRdmn wrote:
Just cause I very rarely see a puncture in the front tire. And I could get the Dyna Beads locally. Since I run a parts department, I like to try all the different products out there.

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I've had 3 punctures in front tires & 2 in the rear in the past 40+ yrs iv'e been riding bikes on the road.

Scott

Big Dawg wrote:
LeeRdmn wrote:
The beads were only put in the front, instant smoothness. My ride has never been this smooth. I plan on running the Ride On in the rear, exactly for the reasons listed.

Lee

Okay, so I'm confused. If Ride-On is all that it's cracked up to be, balances your tires and fixes flats, even some punctures in tubes, without all the greasy kid stuff, why would you use Dyna-Beads in the front tire and Ride-On in back instead of Ride-On in both?

BD
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For safety sake i would definately run the ride-on in both front & rear tires to ballance them,protect against puctures,and also reduce tire-tread induced howel-noise too.

The ride site doesnt mention it can reduce/quiet tire tread howling type noise but in my bikes case the Bridgestone excedra was noisey as heck from day 1 esp when cornering,it was anoying as heck.

But when i installed a new rear tire i decided to install the ride-on in bith front & rear tires at the same time to ensure i have the best ballance & puncture protection for both tires.

Then to my surprise when i test rode bike with new rear tire & to chk ballance i also noticed the bad front tire howel from front tire was gone too.

I was really happy about that esp since the front tire still has 70-75% tread left (9k miles on it so far) and was facing many more miles of the noisey tire howel in every corner i hit, but not anymore due to the ride-on stopping the tire noise!

Scott

Big Dawg wrote:
Okay, so I'm confused. If Ride-On is all that it's cracked up to be, balances your tires and fixes flats, even some punctures in tubes, without all the greasy kid stuff, why would you use Dyna-Beads in the front tire and Ride-On in back instead of Ride-On in both?

BD

My reason is the Ride-On is pretty expensive.

texasscott1 wrote:
Big Dawg wrote:
Okay, so I'm confused. If Ride-On is all that it's cracked up to be, balances your tires and fixes flats, even some punctures in tubes, without all the greasy kid stuff, why would you use Dyna-Beads in the front tire and Ride-On in back instead of Ride-On in both?

BD

My reason is the Ride-On is pretty expensive.
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Yes,2x cost of dyna beads but all it takes is 1x for the ride-on to save you from a flat in the middle of nowhere or worse yet from having a rrear tire go down when crusing 75mph on the interstate with the wife/girlefriend on the back & loosing control going down to be worth the $20 additional cost for the ride-on,my wifes & my life is worth more then that additional $20 to me.

I saw 2x over the past yr here in RSC where people posted new repots of a rear tire going down at highway speed on bikes that killed people,1x was a husband & wife that were both killed and other was a guy that was killed riding alone.

Concesus was in both cases post accident that rear tires had lost air possibly due to puncture (nail/screw etc) or that people had not checked tire pressure recently and it was low that a product like ride-onoe had the potential to stop from happening in both cases ,ride-on could have potentially saved someones life or lives in those 2 cases.

So on top of that it was also well worth the additonal $20 i paid for the ride-on over dyna beads to have it stop the loud anoying front tire moan/howel so i could ride for last 10k miles of the s life in peace with no more moaing/howling as well as it keeping the tires ballanced well too.

Thats why i will always use & rec ride-on over dyna beads any day of the wk because i already know 1st hand it ballances tires well and also quiets noisey moaing howeling tires not to mnetion the most important aspect possibly saving my wifes & my life someday keeping a tire from going down .

As for its ability to seal up to it's advertised 1/4" punctures in the tubeless tires my bike has i have thankfully not had a chance to see how it performs there . But from the videos & pic's i have seen/rvu'd it sure made it look as though the ride-on could really seal up to 1/4" punctures in tubelss apps,it also had good user feedback too.

We are talking a small $20 dif in cost here for a superior product that does more then the Dyna beads can that also has the potential to save a life due to it's sealing ability,thats a no brainer for me/LOL!!!!,from now on it will always be ride-on in my bikes tires!

Just my $.02 on that one.

Scott

So Scott what did it cost you to do both tires with the ride on?

chiefriceburner wrote:
So Scott what did it cost you to do both tires with the ride on?
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Well unfortunately i missed getting by with only 2 bottles ride-on by 1-2 oz,i had to buy a 3rd bottle which brought price to approx $48-50 in S&H.

I dont care that it costs more then dyna beads because it does more like seal up to 1/4" puncture with tubeless tires which may save your life someday or at least avoid the hastle of getting stuck in middle on nowhere,can dampen/stop tire noise-moaning both of which dynas beads can't do,and also ballances the tires which is the only thing the Dyna beads can do.

You can buy it online on ebay,belive the ride-on site,and other places too if ya google it.

If you decide to buy it go the ride-on site 1st look up you bikes tire size to get thier rec amount of ride-on to run in OZ for the tire sizes you running on your bike so you know how much to buy.

BTW,there's nothing wrong with dyna beads,they are a good product that does what they are designed to do .

I just prefer to use a product that can do more for me like possibly save my life and or at the very least avoid having a PIA flat tire in the boonies while at the same time ballancing the tires not to mention quieting noisey tires too all for only $48-50 to cover a couple yrs/2 seasons riding for me in the North East!

Yes,Ride-On cost's more but it also does more then the Dyna beads does too,you get whay you pay for these days.

Scott

I use Dina Beads in my tires, 2 oz in front and 2 oz in the back tire. I run spoked rims on my bike and I think that's waaay too many holes for Ride-On to plug. As stated before, Ride-On does not attache itself to the rims very well so it wouldn't do me any good.


W. Coyote

W. It'll work in a tubed tire just not as well. It'll only seal up to a 1/8" hole and then only 55 - 65 percent of the time on a tubed tire compared to above 90 percent and a 1/4" hole on a tubeless tire/wheel.

I don't understand your reference to rhe spokes. The sealant is inside the tube and will attempt to seal a hole in the tube.

If one uses Ride-On for sealing AND balancing then Ride-On states that 25% more than the recommended amount needs to be added to the tire.