The Importance of Wheel Balancing Equipment
You can easily convert standard wheel balancers with a 40mm shaft into a motorcycle wheel balancer. Most of our equipment pieces come with an adapter included.
This allows you to extend the range of balancing services that you can supply to your customers without investing in a separate machine for motorcycles.
If your motorbike wheels are unbalanced, it can cause premature wear and become a hazard.
As the wheel tries to wobble itself out of alignment, vibrations make their way through the wheel spindle, which in turn stresses the wheel bearings, leading to premature wear. There’s also the danger that excessive vibrations could loosen various fasteners around the bike. Tyres will also run hotter as the contact patch moves, again leading to uneven wear.
When to Use a Tyre Machine
A customer may not come in specifically for wheel balancing but the equipment can still be utilised by your garage staff.
Often a customer may not be aware their wheels are off-balance or know they should be checking their balance every 5,000 -7,000 miles.
Having the equipment on-site allows your staff to easily and quickly spot issues with the vehicle’s balance and recommend to the customer they might need their wheels balanced.
You may also pick this up during the tyre-fitting process. If you have a customer complaining about any of the following symptoms whilst driving then it’s time to utilise your tyre balancing equipment:
- Vibration underfoot in the steering well or through the seat at high speeds.
- Vibrating steering wheel – particularly at higher speeds.
- Unusual wear patterns on tyres indicating unbalance.

SICE Wheel Balancing Machines All SICE Wheel balancers are programmed with advanced Italian software. With over half a century of experience in the automotive market, SICE has developed wheel balancers which offer a great choice of functionality across the range, to suit any wheel balancing application. The accuracy of a wheel balancer will depend on how many positions it can measure in the 360-degree rotation. The more positions it can pick up in one revolution, the more accurate it can be in telling you where exactly to place the weight. SICE Wheel balancers have a minimum 256 position sensor in the machine, giving you the most precision possible in today's market. Everard offers an extensive range of cutting edge tyre equipment, including service, sales, parts and repairs for all SICE wheel balancers and tyre changers. Get in touch today or check out our product ranges online.