Speed Wobbles - "Devil's Dance"
 

Heading south on Beeline Hwy in Arizona, with two buddies yesterday, coming back from the MMA State Rally. I'm on my 05 Super Glide with stock suspension and a QD windshield& 16" apes. Leading the group and pretty much givin' her all I got 'cause I have a splitting headache and want to get on home to the misses (I just know she can make it all better).

Anyway, going 75 mph or so around the wide sweeping turns I get speed wobbles. Mostly not so bad,but I can't throttle out of them. I have to let off the gas and she settles right down. A couple were pretty bad and one actually got my buddy (Hounddog from the HDF) wondering if he was gonna have to dodge some bike parts.

My question....is this the narrow and small front end...the windshield...the bars...or all three?

I've ridden mountain roads with the same setup and conditions before and really never noticed severe wobbles. Very minor wobbles are normal for the bars though.

Anyone have similar experiences with similar setups? Any suggestions (and please don't tell me to "dump the bars" or "get a real bike" etc)

Thanks,

MV

RE: Speed Wobbles - "Devil's Dance"
 

Get a real bike. [sm=icon_rofl.gif]





It's never happened to me, but If I had to guess I'd say it's because of the windshield.

RE: Speed Wobbles - "Devil's Dance"
 

Um...dump the windshield...?

RE: Speed Wobbles - "Devil's Dance"
 

Yep...guess I asked for that :eek:

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Maybe the windshield catching the side anlge draft, then getting into the wobble rythem trying to correct.

Thanks!

RE: Speed Wobbles - "Devil's Dance"
 

ya buddy yer ass about ate pavment!!! i personally think da windshield too but i also think the stock front end blows monkey balls my friend. try da shield first doe its cheaper

RE: Speed Wobbles - "Devil's Dance"
 

could have something to do with the condition of the road in those turns, in combination with some very specific cross winds that were hitting the shield.

Is it a road nearby that you are familiar with? ... can you take the shield off and ride the road again?

I don't think its the apes... except that the farther away your hands are from the triple tree, any anomoly will be more exaggerated... so, they could have had a contributing factor.

what about tire pressure? Is your Fall Away good?

RE: Speed Wobbles - "Devil's Dance"
 

i had same problem on my wideglide, with windshield on or off, lowered the rear, put race tech springs up front lowered it a inch, and changed the front tire to mest, with 90/90/21 instead of the stock 80/90 dumblops, and handles like a sport bike nite and day

RE: Speed Wobbles - "Devil's Dance"
 

Mine does the same thing, it has no windshield so you can safely eliminate that.It also has much lower bars than yours and still does it so you can forget that too.It mostly happens any time I try to lean it over at anything 60ish or better.It's oddly undramatic too it doesn't shake violently it just slowly weaves in any kind of semi fast sweeper.Tightening up the rear suspension helped a bit but didn't cure it.If anyone knows how to fix this I'd be real interested.

RE: Speed Wobbles - "Devil's Dance"
 

mee too, have 12.5 wild ones had the wobble doing about 75mph, but also had a 25-30 mph wind.

RE: Speed Wobbles - "Devil's Dance"
 

I would like to install 12" Prog. 412 HD's and Prog. springs with SE fork fluid up front. I wonder if that would help cure it?

Sounds like mayby the stock supsension is abit too soft for that kind of riding?

MV