Yellow Dots inline with Valve?

[Mojoe]

a friend of mine mentioned this to me once... not sure true or not...

 

in order to balance your wheels properly, when you fit the tires to the rims, you must align the yellow painted dot on the tires with the place where the tire valve sticks out...

 

something to do with matching the heaviest part of the tires with the lightest (or heaviest) part of the rims..

 

true?

 

I realised mine is and my friend said his isn't so have difficulty balancing them.

[Mojoe]

kinda answer my question

 

found a couple of sites on this and it is true for bikes as well... yellow (these are the lightest point of the tire) to match the valve (the heaviest point on the rims)

 

http://www.trucktires.com/...rs/04v9iss1/ra8b.asp

 

http://www.orbweb.net/...alk/5_balancing.html

 

 

 

a sticky for this mod?

Edited September 8, 2004 by Mojoe