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New michelin "road classic" tyres (tires)

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Skoti:
Not sure how folk on here balance their wheels, but when working in the motorcycle trade for many years I seldom found new motorcycle tyres not requiring wheel balancing when mounted on a professional electronic wheel balancer.

But to get back to the original topic, I also have Michelin Classics on my F1 and they took a fair bit of weight to balance them properly.
And previous to that my Avon Roadriders and Bridgestone BT45s also required balancing.

nairb:
I have to post the following pic of my Honda cl450 k5.  It has those old lead spoke balance weights.  I suspect in times gone past tyres might not have been quite so perfect as they are today..........

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The rear wheel of this bike just has one balance weight.   Suppose I could get brass ones.
These are Metzeler tyres......  maybe 6/7 years old.  Maybe not all Honda wheels are as perfect as they could be

florence:
In the forty plus years I have been riding, I have never noticed a motorcycle tyre to be out of balance to an extend that it has caused a problem.  I haven't ridden a bike with tubeless tyres.  I don't know whether that is any different.

I believe the lead weights are to do with wheel balancing not tyre balancing. Personally I would not alter them.

taysidedragon:
All the bikes I've ridden in the last 25/30 years have had the wheels balanced after tyre fitting. My old Brit bikes 50 years ago, as far as I can remember, never got balanced. It wasn't a problem back then, I never worried about it.
I fitted the front tyre on my 400f myself. It's an aluminium rim, spoked wheel. It needed 30g to balance, I didn't ride with it unbalanced so I don't know if I would have felt it at speed.
The rear wheel is the same set up and needed 40g to balance.
I believe that the front wheel is the most important wheel to balance to avoid vibrations or shimmies through the steering. Anyone who's had a full on tank slapper at high speed would avoid anything likely to trigger another one!

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