I installed heavy duty tubes to reduce likelihood of flats. Do you have rim locks? They really throw a wheel off balance if only one per wheel is used. Lots of road use? If so, I'd consider having them balanced.

 

Unless there's a good reason not to go with heavy duty tubes I'll do that. No rim locks and I will be doing primarily road so I guess I'll get them balance.

 

holy crap, 40k miles?

 

if your not doing rim locks and your having a shop put the new tires on chances are you wont need them balanced. and for what its worth 70mph+ with my tires not balanced and its still really smooth at those speeds

 

Good to know. I wanted to do them myself but after hearing I should get them balanced I started to re-think it. So if you think I'd be good with just the tire change cool.

 

thats on my 09 i have close to 42 on my 07 i use them to prerun in the off season for baja 1 do on avrage 1000-1200 in a weekend and 90% ore more of my miles are dirt my trip i'm planing next year is cabo to fairbanks in 2weeks mostly dirt, and the year after i'm going to take a boat to cape horn and ride home and hit the death road along the way, what can i say i love to ride my longest ride on the klx is almost 53hrs nonstop other than gas

 

worst case scenario anyways you mount them yourself save the money there. and if they dont seem to feel right to you then you bring them in and have them looked at and make sure everything was done right. im just passing along the knowledge i have and what ive learned from my local shop i deal with. when i had them do my tires i asked to have them balanced and they said theyd be pretty much just taking my money for no good reason since they spun fine after being mounted

 

I stopped using HD tubes because of the weight... You can really notice the heaviness in the wheel (especially front). The HD tubes weigh probably triple what the regular ones do.
Not worth it for me, haven't had a flat it ages (knock on wood).

 

Brieninsac....Read my early post...Buy some good tires,get them Balanced,your life is riding on them...
But that's just me..200 bucks for good tires is worth it to me,and I change them at half tread,on both bikes,again just me,small price to pay for my life,everyone else is different...Like I said Night and day from those stock ones,and really smooth on the Slab..