Valve and balanced silent kit and Mariposa shelter effect wheels

Valve and balanced silent kit and Mariposa shelter effect wheels

Shelter Wheel Kit is made up of 35 adhesive washers: slipped on the valve, glue on the circle and prevent elegantly and almost invisible vibrations or annoying noises.
The kit is also ideal for balancing the wheels, with more an effect of reducing the vibrations of the visco-elastic material.

Strengths:

• Eliminates annoying noises in the valve area, especially on high -profile rims


• Shelter's slices can be used to balance the wheels


• The visco-elastic behavior of the material reduces the propagation of vibrations

CHARACTERISTICS:

How to make the valves silent:

Shelter Wheel Kit is made up of 35 adhesive washers: slipped on the valve, glue on the circle and prevent elegantly and almost invisible vibrations or annoying noises.
The strict envelope means that the unused slices maintain their characteristics also for subsequent applications. Once shelter's slices are glued to the circle, you can remove and reintegrate the valve, without losing the precious "silent". This is the simplest function of the Shelter Wheel Kit, but there is much more.
Nobody would drive a sports car whose wheels have not been carefully balanced, once the tires are installed. In the cycling field, the current high -performance wheels perhaps equipped with ceramic bearings and very light carbon rims cannot reveal all their potential without having been balanced correctly. It is a simple operation that requires a Shelter Wheel Kit, a wheel support (from the counter ... or a turned -up bicycle), a little patience and a few minutes of time

How to balance the wheels:

1. Whip the tire, any brake disc so that the wheel is ready for use. Place the wheel on a support where it can rotate freely.


2. Turn the wheel with a slight push. After some complete revolutions in the sense of push and some partial settlement, the wheel will stop. The lowest point of the wheel is where excess weight is located.
   Normally the wheels stop with the valve in the lower point ... but sometimes an uneven distribution of the weight on the tire prevails, so the heaviest point can be found elsewhere.


3. Mark the lowest point of the wheel with a pencil or a piece of adhesive tape. We will call it point "A".


4. The diametrically opposite point on the circle, point "B" is where we will glue a washer of Shelter. This is to counterbalance the excess weight at the "A" point.


5. Repeat the process from point .2, putting the wheel in rotation. Each time the heaviest point "A" will remain indicatively the same (with a tolerance in the position of +-10 cm) and each time we will proceed to glue a shelter washer at the point "B".

When the point "A" moves over 20 cm from the previous position, it means that the wheel is balanced. By turning the wheel, the point "A" will become a random position, influenced by the friction of the bearings rather than by a real excessive accumulation of weight.

Shelter's slices can be glued to each other, or one next to the other, on top of the circle or on the sides (depending on the size / profile of the circle) ..

An elegant trick, even if not always possible, is to find a radius near the "B" point and glue the washer around the Nipples, after cutting it on one side with scissors.

Each washer weighs about 1 g. The imbalance of the wheels can request from 4 to 12 grams of counterweight.

Visco-elasticity reduces vibrations:

The transmission of vibrational energy through any structure can be reduced by adding visco-elastic elements in some places. This is exactly what Shelter does, not only by protecting rigid carbon frames from impacts but while reducing vibrations.