Wheel balancing

I've just got a replacement rear wheel for my SOBM (see
below, it serves me well).
Tyre fitters said they could not balance it.
How crucial is it to have the rear wheel balanced?
I want to fit it now but I can't get it balanced till tomorrow.

 

Perfect, thanks.
Now I'll swap the brake discs, I want the cast iron one on
the bike, and fit the wheel.
Cheers.

 

thinking about it, I would have thought only bikes with single-sided
swingarms would be much affected even by a fairly out of balance rear
wheel (and I don't know why I think this, it's a gut-feeling)

I'd have thought so.

 

So you were going to get the wheel balanced, & /then/ swap the brake
discs...?

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heh.

 

Er, no....

There are other variables at play in a rear wheel - usually the chain
run, which is unlikely to be in balance anyway. However, on a shafty
like the Beemer, I'd get the rear wheel balanced too.

 

See other posting - on a shafty, where the drive shaft is (usually) in
perfect balance, unlike a chain, it's advisable to balance the rear
wheel as well as the front.

 

FOYRNB
No I wasn't.

 

what beemer?

 

What's a balanced chain run?

 

I'm happy to be advised.

 

Ubuntu linux?

Phil.

 

The one the OP referred to in his original posting?

 

A crap description, really. What I meant is that a flapping chain on a
spinning wheel tends to be an out-of-balance factor acting on the
wheel anyway...