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Aug 23, 2025 | 09:13 AM

#11

Crazy

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Originally Posted by Jake707

If you can correct with just shifting your weight more to the right side of the bike, I would call that more of a drift than a pull.............

Me too. Every motorcycle I've owned in the last 40 odd years has done something like that. I've gone through all the procedures to check and correct everything possible and they all still did it. All the Harley's I've owned have drifted to the left. I've always assumed it's just because of the weight of the primary drive on the left. Just putting my tool roll in the right saddlebag on my Heritage is enough to counteract it.

Aug 26, 2025 | 12:46 PM

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OakMountainRider

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I had the same till I aligned the rear wheel with the front wheel. There should be holes in the swingarm. The center of the axle should have the same distance to the holes on both sides.

Next is the vertical alignment which you can adjust with a flexible top motor mount. Keep the frame straight, turn the handle bar so the front wheel is straight to the rear wheel. You tie it up with strings to see that it is aligned. Now you attach levels at the rotors and adjust the motor mount so both rotors are straight.

Now you can check with light bulbs or extra strings from the rear wheel to see how the wheels align.