What's everyone paying for mount and balance?

[oneup]

Shop just down the street quoted me 52.00+tax to mount/balance a 90/90/21 if I bring my own tube. Is this normal?

That is me bringing in the rim off the bike. And that is no dismount, just mount/balance.

 

[halfmile]

2 dismounts and 2 mounts are $200+ tax here in Topeka. Outrageous!! And that`s carry in yourself.

 

[xjwmx]

$20 each about everywhere. That's one zero, not two, Halfmile, you must be going to a dealer.

 

[Superjet]

$25 each wheel here in Canada's east coast! Wheels on bike obviously more but who does that!!! Lol

 

[5twins]

It used to be $20 to $25 most everywhere but isn't anymore. One of the reasons I bought the HF motorcycle tire changer @ about $40. I figured it would pay for itself in no time, and it has. By the time I bought a gallon jug of tire lube and the plastic ends so I could make a proper changing bar, I was up near $80, but it's still paid for itself and actually started saving me money.

 

[xjwmx]

I went to a Mexican tire shack in Austin to see how much it would cost and he said $40 each. A couple of days later I went back with the tires and the guy there then asked if I got a price and he changed it to $40 for both like I must have misunderstood. So I took the back tire off in the lot and he did that one, then I took the front tire off and he did that one. The old machine he had got the old tire off and the new one on in under a minute.

 

[robinc]

$30 a wheel carry in here, $60 a wheel if on the bike.

 

[XSLeo]

Get the HF changer, it will save you a lot of money.
I have the car tire changer and the bike tire changer, I do all my own tires.
Dyna Beads for balance. Less than $15 for kit that has enough beads for two tires and a installer. When you do the next tire change you cut the old tube open, get the beads out to install in the new tube. Even easier of you run tubeless.
Leo

 

[ThatXS650Guy]

$36 each here North Georgia. Carry in.
A friend of mine has a nice tire changer mounted in front of his garage. I can imagine what my wife would say about that...

 

[gggGary]

Have an old manual Coats 200 do about 15-20 tires most years. In the winter I just use tire irons on the floor near the wood stove. I never realize how many I've done til spring cleaning when I have take the old tires in and pay $3 each to get rid of them.

 

[mrtwowheel]

Interesting thread. I change my own and it is something that I actually enjoy. Neighbors, friends and family pay me $20 per tire, removed, mounted and installed by me. For me it is a matter of trust more than cost. I use BB's for balance in tubeless tires, the same weight that Dyna Beads states in their charts.

Scott

 

[gggGary]

Yup 'bout 5 years ago had a shop change a tire on an insanely fast rocket, later that week while cleaning I found the axle bolts were left loose. (the mech "went for a test ride" also!) That was the last time a shop has touched a bike of mine.

 

[mrtwowheel]

One night I was washing a bike, getting ready for a big ride the next day with family and friends. While cleaning the tires with Bleche-Wite I heard an awful WHOOOOSHING sound. Yep, the valve stem had broken off with just a little pressure from the scrubbing brush. The asshole who changed the tire last did not put in a new valve stem. Guess who that asshole was. He thought he could get away with it because it was his bike. Straightened him out good.

Scott

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

We gets $4 per wheel.

Just set your way wayback machine to 1973, and c'mon down...

 

[highboy_coupe]

I can get a wheel done for £30 in the UK.
But I have a couple of tire irons and some tire soap, so now I do it myself in the workshop (always felt balance is not too important if it rides ok)

 

[KonigXS650]

Free, from my local shop if you buy the tires through him. And he'll usually match online prices.

 

[mrtwowheel]

I can get a wheel done for £30 in the UK.
But I have a couple of tire irons and some tire soap, so now I do it myself in the workshop (always felt balance is not too important if it rides ok)

When I was using stick-on-weights, about 75% of the tires that I balanced were using the same weights, in the same place, as the tires before them. So, I think, with the well made tires that we have today, I was actually balancing the wheel, and not the tire.

Scott

 

[5twins]

Yes, many times you are actually balancing the wheel mostly. That's why I leave the current weights on when installing a new tire. A balance check afterwards many times shows the new tire balance to be good, and if a change is needed, it's usually just a minor one.

I deal with spoke wheels mostly. I don't know if anyone's noticed, but spoke wheel weights have gotten expensive, considering what they are. I've "liberated" every one I could find off the bikes in my dealer's boneyard, lol. But I still felt the need for more, so I took to casting my own .....

 

[gggGary]

Appleton WI
Maximus Motors LLC is now offering tire mounting and balancing, featuring the BEST mounting and balancing prices around!

Off the bike: $25 per wheel/tire or $40 per set ($10 discount), plus Wisconsin sales tax (5%)

On the bike: $40 per wheel/tire, plus Wisconsin sales tax (5%)