Need help w/high speed wobble on 2007 NT
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You probably did already, but check your wheel bearings...to be safe. I have had two wheel bearing failures, second at 65 mph, twelve hundred bucks damage...
Whole new set of quality aftermarket are less than fifty bucks...
Hope you find it...
Whole new set of quality aftermarket are less than fifty bucks...
Hope you find it...
I actually had a wheel bearing failure last year when I PC'd the rims. I replaced the bearings front and rear specifically to prevent such an issue, and guess what? I'm out joy riding along and I start hearing this god awful noise from the front end. The seal let go and blew the grease all over my front end.
definitely worth checking your front and rear wheel alignment (parallelism) . swingarm bearings ? . measure from center of swingarm axle to center of rear wheel axle for positive alignment . don't rely on just the rear adjusters . out of line wheels can cause weaving and high speed instability or wobble.
This also occurred to me. I will definitely look into this.
drop that front tire pressure to 30… and give it a go. Tires like to 'expand in circumference' when increasing in speed… your front tire is doing this and as speed increases, so does your tire diameter. If you lower the pressure a bit, you should be able to get to a greater speed before encountering the wobble.
I run mine 30/40 ...
I run mine 30/40 ...
As soon as the rain here stops, I'll give this a try.
I've looked into this, but I can't seem to find one for the inverted front end I have on the bike.
Thanks for chiming in here guys, your responses are greatly appreciated.
Last edited by Echo6 Sierra; Apr 8, 2015 at 05:29 AM.
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This may be a stupid question...but I didn't see it asked. Are those inverted forks over length or is there any added rake to the triple trees? Trail issues could be causing it to shopping cart at speed.
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Let's see the new bars
Hey echo let's see those bars as I'm on the fence of what to get,
keep changing my mind!
keep changing my mind!
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These new bars really did the trick. No more wobble; sometimes I'm at 85mph and don't even know it. The bike handles a lot better, feels like I'm on a rail cruising down the highway.