Been needing new tyres for a few weeks now & had originally booked to have a set of Dunlop Roadsmarts fitted at Protyre in Gloucester - They quoted me £235 fitted, balanced, 'ride-in ride-out'.

Not knowing Gloucester too well, I managed to get lost & had to ask the way. The bloke I asked said the all the decent bike fitters had left Protyre & set up on their own just down the road - www.chrismullins.co.uk.

When I got there, they quoted me £210 to fit the same tyres there & then (even though they were getting ready to close for the day). The 2 blokes working on the bike had obviously done Buells before, knew their little foibles &, 40 minutes later, I was riding out again (straight into a fecking thunderstorm...).

All-round decent chaps - I'll be using them again.

Did they know the correct torque for the spindles? If not you're looking for new spacers and wheel bearings

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Well they used a torque wrench rather than air gun... bugger, you've got me worried now

Hopefully the torque was correct for a XB and not a tuber Might be worth asking them what values they used.
If it's over torqued it crushes the spacer but you won't know this until you remove the bearings

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One day you know some enterprising person is going to make a spacer out of some stailess!

N.

To heavy, just use the right torque. simples.
only a problem if you do not remove the wheel yourself then you are in the hands of the tyre fitter - some are good just like every other profession. Apart from MP's there all w-----!

Doubt you would tell the difference, I never noticed the difference when I fitted spindle bobbins.

N.

But, you know they would be heavier therefore they are too heavy! You are right I was going to spin some up in stainless when I did the bearings but came to the conclussion "I am doing the bearings and only I remove my wheels, I have a left handed torque wrench and I know what to do with it - no point in making the spacers then".

Why do people put so much emphasis on the weight of their bikes when a good deal of riders would be better off shedding 3 or 4 stone in weight themselfs......and when you think about it the spacer is gonna have no effect on the way the bike feels on the road ...................how many other bikes suffer such easily crushed spacers

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aside,

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Unsprung weight ......not that most Buell riders would be able to appreciate the difference between steel or ali spacers

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Always use Pro-Tyre in Glos myself, except that I take my Buell wheels in sans bike, mainly so drive belt disturbance is my own responsibility.

Nice to be able to watch them work as the bike tyre machine is next to a big window in the waiting room next to the coffee machine.

They even have to go across the road to borrow Buell rear wheel adaptor for their tyre machine from local bike shop, no fuss and good price, even when I bought my tyres elsewhere, but I am a regular. Recommended

We do know the benefits of unsprung weight dear Mazzer but on the freakin public road! Not going to upset the ride that much now is it. Different makes of tyre weigh diferently!
Yes, on the track sure. May get ya another 100/0 second

N.

Something we are forgetting is the tolerance stack up of wheel and spacer. Some bikes eat bearings even though they are cared for as if by Erik himself...

Stainless spacers would be a great idea if:
a. Anyone could be bothered to make them (how much would anyone pay for them?)
b. They are suited to the wheel they are being used in

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Isn't that what I said

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Mithered ta death.
92 MB
96 S2T
98 S1W
00 M2
01 X1
03 P3
10 CR