I purchased a PR4GT and contacted my dealer for the install. I told them not to balance as I plan on using Ride-On. Tne following was the service mnagers response.
Brad, we strongly discourage the use of dyna-beads or any other loose material to be ran inside the tire, as per Michelin and Metzeler...
regards, Dan
Not sure if he was referring to Ride-On as I do not see it as being loose material and my research has turned up no negative comments about the Ride-On product.
Yesterday I changed the Bridgestone tire on the spare rear wheel for my F6B. It was the first tire I've removed that had Dyna Beads in it. I recovered the old beads using an envelope, as someone suggested on this site. Just open the flap and lay the envelope inside the tire, then roll the tire so the beads fill the envelope. That method works great!
The old beads did have more of a gray color than the new ones, undoubtedly from contact with the tire lining. There were even a few tiny specs of rubber mixed in. But I don't remember seeing anything inside of the tire that would concern me. I'll take another look as the old tire is still in the driveway.
BTW, these beads appear to be nothing more that ceramic proppant, used to hydraulically fracture ('frac') oil and gas wells. In the industry we buy this stuff by the ton. The price per ounce is a tiny fraction of what we riders pay.
