Add A Rim Lock Then Balancing The CRF450L's DID Wheels With Motoz Desert HTs

welcome to not how to change your tire video there's like a trillion of those things on the on the internet so there's going to be all the other stuff on how not to change your tire yeah [Music] or all the other stuff you don't do when you change the tire as always my content is always kind of specific to the Honda CRF 450 l no exception here the 450 L comes with these nice di D rims but what they don't come with is rim locks and part of the reason I believe that is is because the bike was made to go more than 50 miles an hour and if your rims if your if your tires if your wheels are out of balance at 50 55 you're you're going to know it with rim locks you're really going to know it with two bliss who knows that might actually work but anyways so your 450 L does not come with rim locks but there are places to put them so I installed rim lock in the rear tire it's just insurance um I never really lower my pressure too much below 10 psi but if I did get a flat and I had to write out on this tire without a rim lock I would be writing out on just the rim so it's kind of insurance now having said that I put the rim lock on now I have to balance my tires and to be honest with you some of these bigger tires are kind of heavy and even if the tire itself is just a little out of whack you really notice it the front tire that I have on now the Razzie definitely has a bounce to it when I get up to speed so we're going to get rid of that so to that end we have a tire we've got this little cheesy cheap-ass tusk balancer instead of the old way you'd put your tire on really loose on your axle and hope for the best we're gonna be a little more precise than that again there's really nothing to this if you go out and buy a balancer all it is is a couple bearings and a rod you hang your your tire on the axle and you find up right the heavy spot will go to the bottom you put a weight on the opposite side you keep messing with it until it until it becomes more like a roulette machine and you never know where it's gonna stop okay so I'm gonna mount this thing up while I'm doing it I just wanted to talk real quick about if you do put rim locks on these tires I went with the Warped nine titanium ones so they're as light as they could possibly be apparently I can't talk and do this at the same time that's pretty pathetic I went with the titanium warp 9 rim locks again just so it's lighter that's rotating mass blah blah blah if I rode more dirt maybe I would be more concerned with with the heavier duty or rim lock something steel they make plastic ones I I'm not too sure how I feel about plastic there we go ok so that's on I'm gonna set that [Music] it seemed to work pretty good I have a couple different kind of weights here I've got the stick-ons I've got the gluons they've got the the brass weights in one ounce and and smaller I have absolutely no idea what this is going to take so so anyways so here's a meter rate this is one ounce whoo what else you need to be aware of okay no way it takes more weight from that I mean I say there's no way but they're very well could be away but we're way closer than we were right [Music] damn this is just getting silly alright we're going to throw one more on there and then I'm gonna get you afraid that nothing's going to work right although if you look the the rim lock is here and the valve stem is over here so it is in the right spot for sure I just didn't think that that titanium rim lock was this heavy this seems a little excessive Wow okay now it's getting real excessive that kind of makes me sad so again the other ones I have are these gluon lead weights not a huge fan of these things I've never had a whole lot of luck with them actually staying on the tire so there is that to consider and the quarter ounce each so we've got one two three we've got three and a half ounces on there now so it'd take like a whole freakin strip well it's still heavy on that side of the tire again and that was with the titanium rim lock and now you know why they don't put rim locks on the owl see what the whole line of these things look like so this is one two three four so I would have to put these many on to equal this and I just might do it and I feel like I need to add a bunch of these to my toolkit just in case I have a flat and I'm changing it and I tear these off or they fall off on their own I mean so there's four ounces I would hope it would drop to the bottom there we go so let's pull this three-and-a-half ounces off and see where we're at that okay so that's four ounces of lead weights okay so that's four ounces of lead weights [Music] and it's still pulling towards that so I wonder if I posted this whole process up there who would still be watching right now because this is this is a lot like watching paint dry watching paint dry might actually be a little more exciting all right so we still got a high spot right here at the D idea I'm gonna put this little guy there we're so close if it would just stay right there huh actually I like it close enough for me all right this is going to go back on the bike and now I'm going to pull the front tire off and do the same thing to that although that's not getting a rim lock in the end I went with four and a quarter ounces in the back to balance it and I went with three ounces in the front to balance that and when all is said and done they tracked really well they didn't bounce a hop or skip or anything really they behaviour very well the desert age teas aren't road tires I mean they're do teas they're not road tires the whole time I was riding I thought there was somebody on a two-stroke following me around right after I mounted and balanced these tires I did the Arizona backcountry Discovery route and there probably rode between five and six hundred miles on the road to get to the start and then another six hundred miles to get from Mexico to the Utah border and we always stayed on the whole time the stick-on ones never came off even though I crashed enough times to actually bend my rear sprocket but as far as the weights go no they held up really well and they're still on there right now and as always thanks for watching

Channel: John T. Young

Views: 4,033

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: crf450l, honda crf450l, review, mods, crf450lrally, adventure bike, light adventure bike, ultra light adventure bike, build, rally build, honda crf rally, best adventure bike, wheel balance, motoz desert

Id: tJ74godrrcc

Length: 14min 3sec (843 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 04 2020