I balanced my rims myself last time on my balancing machine.
The reason is, that I can’t find a company in the neighborhood where that is still done.
Almost all tire companies now only work with rims that have a standard central hole in them for tensioning the rim.
I bought a new tire machine a few years ago, and with it the appropriate tensioning plates for both my ID20 and my Traction Avant 11BN.
When balancing, I found that on both the Traction and the ID, the rims are not all round and certainly not flat.
With the Traction I had quite a few available rims, so I chose the best ones and put new Michelin originals around them.
For the DS I have to do this again and that is scheduled for the 2022 refurbishment.
I had The Traction rims powder coated in cream white, the same color as the original rim color. Except the spare, as shown above…
