Now you have me thinking as well. I remember seeing the dots on many tires, just not recently (last couple of years). Could have swore that they were on the PR2,3 &4's that I used to run. Certainly not on the PIrelli Angels, Metzler 01, or BST31's that I have last mounted.
Dynamic balancing is more effective for wider tires, like car tires because it detects which plane the heavy spot is in and places the weight on the side of the rim closest to that plane thereby canceling out the "wobble" or sideways imbalance factor. Because motorcycle tires are much narrower the likelihood of the heavy spot being significantly to one side is small so static balancing works just fine. Its usually a good practice to split the required weight between both sides of the rim.I see a number of members doing their own tire changes and static balancing. Except that it's time consuming I wonder how that compares to dynamic balancing with good equipment. I saw a set of my tires balanced on a machine that did one maybe two revolutions and stopped. It not only showed where the weights went but how much and on which side of the rims.
At some point this gets down to levels where it's beyond our ability to resolve actual performance differences and all that's left is to argue preference as fact.
