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[wolfzr2]

I found this while cheking out some off road sites.
Tire balls

[ducksface]

Vaguely. I remember working on something similar and givng up. If you take a look at the idea behind it it fairly well sucks except for baja1000 type stuff.
A 31.5x10.5 [if my calculations are close] would cost you about $700 per tire.


Or you can buy the 99cent balls at Walmart and be at about $60 per tire...THEY ARE THE EXACT SAME THING.

[N.J.C.]

Yes. Very popular with quads, specifically on the GNCC circuit. Many woods ATV racers have used them for years.

[ZR2DAN]

I've got 2 of them.

[cknaffle]

Yup, been around for years. They use all kinds of stuff - golf balls, mouse balls, sand, equal, the list goes on. I use airsoft BB's in my big bias ply TSLs ans had them up over 70MPH with no vibrations once they warmed up. Cost me about $20 total.

[ducksface]

We have no freeze issues here. I had water in the swampers and still they wouldn't balance.

I think the balls in the story are to prevent flats by being islolated air pockets and not a balancing device. Yjeyu pound as many in the tirea s possible on the theory that even a bullet will only take out one of say...fifty of them.