Can Tire Wear Cause Balance And Roadforce Numbers To Be Off?
02-13-2016, 01:52 PM
#1
Can Tire Wear Cause Balance And Roadforce Numbers To Be Off?
I bought my '13 GS new and put on Bridgestone RE-11's at the 9K mile mark. Now at 18k miles I noticed a slight shimmy in the steering wheel at 76mph. I took it to my guy and had the fronts put on the hunter machine and sure enough both front tires had a roadforce of 25 and 26 respectively. One of the fronts also had a slight balance problem. When I put these tires on originally they had a roadforce of 2 and 5 respectively. So he match mounted the tires again and got them back to 4 and 6 and re balanced the tires. No more shimmy. BTW the tires are not worn at all and probably have about 75% thread left. Can tire wear cause these problems?
02-13-2016, 03:43 PM
#2
Race Director
Yes,if the tire wear was severely worn due to alignment being way off. But No, under most conditions. IMO but I'm no expert.
Last edited by Don-Vette; 02-13-2016 at 03:45 PM.