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The Great Wheel Balance Scandal


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I've often noticed in recent times, long lines of balance weights, sometimes taking up as much as a third of a rims circumference, I assumed this was a result of shoddy Chinese tyres or maybe yet another surreal and life threatening scene fad, but look what I've found.

 

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The top pair are 30 grammes, the lowers, 60. Why are some bigger? Because they're made of monkey metal rather than lead, the miserable cheap bastards. It's going to be fun when battery makers start turning that trick.

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I wish wheel weights were still made from Depleted Uranium.

No you don't. It 'sweats' so could come loose, sparks violently when you cut or catch it with something metallic and the ammount of paperwork you have to fill in for the HSE (was DTI) and our friends in Brussels accounting for every last gram is a nightmare. Ask me how I know.

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