The good news: I am capable of perfectly balancing motorcycle wheels using my static balancer. I confirmed this by taking my front wheel to a shop with dynamic balancer.
The bad news: my bike has had a pronounced wobble since I switched to Z8s, about 2 months ago. It's most evident at around 55-60mph (easy to feel at the handlebar). If I let go of the bar, I can see bar ends oscillate about 1 inch). I was very much hoping that the cause was improper balance (since this was the first wheel I balanced myself).
I've talked to Metzeler and they said it could very well be a bad tire. So.. my shop will be reaching out to Metzeler next week to get me a replacement.
This is NOT a Metzeler bashing post. Plenty of manufacturers have put out bad batches of tires (remember the early batch of PR3s where the tread separated from the carcass??)
Just a bit of bad luck.
The bad news: my bike has had a pronounced wobble since I switched to Z8s, about 2 months ago. It's most evident at around 55-60mph (easy to feel at the handlebar). If I let go of the bar, I can see bar ends oscillate about 1 inch). I was very much hoping that the cause was improper balance (since this was the first wheel I balanced myself).
I've talked to Metzeler and they said it could very well be a bad tire. So.. my shop will be reaching out to Metzeler next week to get me a replacement.
This is NOT a Metzeler bashing post. Plenty of manufacturers have put out bad batches of tires (remember the early batch of PR3s where the tread separated from the carcass??)
Just a bit of bad luck.