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That's interesting but not surprising. The way the weights vary wildly every time I have a new tyre on, points to tyres being very different individuals regarding their weight distribution.
The tyre will weigh the same whether it's firmly on the bead and full of air or just laying loosely in the bead well... So it should be possible to balance it (statically) in this state and rotate the tyre to get the optimum balance before weighting it.
This depends to a large extent, I suppose, as to whether you have some centres that you balance on, or if you drop the wheel into the bike.
Even so there's probably no reason why you couldn't blow the tyre onto the rim in-situ, once balanced.
I know sometimes they need a couple of goes and some beating to get them seated right, so you won't get away with leaving it in the bike every time.
By the way, I remember you describing "the cable tie method" in a thread some time ago, but didn't pay proper attention at the time.. Do you have a link to it?
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