feels like bad swing arm bushings

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Oct 22, 2018 | 09:03 AM

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PDB17UltraRG

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Welcome to the Forum lots of great info here enjoy and learn from Stuart Fl. Ride a Lot Ride Safe. Start with a good tire inspection it dozen take much to do what your going threw.

Oct 22, 2018 | 10:46 AM

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Huggerbugger

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Is there a hum when you do curves? If the wheel bearings are deficient, you'll usually get a warning as a hum.

Oct 22, 2018 | 04:22 PM

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swing arm bushings

tires are good air pressure 30 psi.
OK I'm going to try to add extra washers and squeeze the rubber bushings together
and see if this will make a difference.

Oct 22, 2018 | 06:14 PM

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fxrnutt

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Rubber bushings?......I say get a manual before you touch it

Oct 23, 2018 | 09:37 PM

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archergodwin

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4k miles... highly doubt it's the swing arm bushings... take a close look at your front motor mount.. .. I had to shim my original front mount and perform a vehicle alignment... cornered great after that.

Oct 24, 2018 | 02:23 AM

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cggorman

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Isn't 30 psi quite a bit low?

Oct 24, 2018 | 06:20 AM

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Bob_fxdb

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Maybe it’s a defect motor mount? That could give you a fishtail flex on the rear tire. But you only have 4K miles on it. Worth a check thoo

Oct 24, 2018 | 07:56 AM

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archergodwin

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lIke CGGorman said... 30psi is too low. A good place to start would be 35 up front and 38 in back.

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Oct 24, 2018 | 02:25 PM

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mds

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too low pressure, on my wide glide, 35psi on front and 40 on the back.

Nov 3, 2018 | 02:24 PM

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OK tires are good belt is good spokes and front mount are good
i stiffened the shock load and road it seems to be fine now
Thanks for all the good Advice.

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