Front end wobble
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Guys, thanks for all the feedback wanted to give you an update. Been working on the heritage for the past few days. Checked front fork for any movement all good, checked wheel alignment and balance, good and checked front and rear spokes made a few minor tightening did not find anything loose. Checked both axles and engine mounts all good. Decided to check the fork bearings and did fall away test per factory shop manual. Played with this for a while and made some adjustments to tightness. Checked every bolt in the front end while assembling, greased bearing again and checked tire pressure. Took a ride and the wobble is still there but very slight. One of those things where if you did know about the wobble you would not feel it.
again thanks for all of your feedback will continue to ride and keep an eye on it.
Dave
again thanks for all of your feedback will continue to ride and keep an eye on it.
Dave
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From: Black Hills of SD
I chased a decel wobble on my CBR1000RR. Investigating all the normal stuff, the steering head "seemed" fine. A guy I worked with that was a die-hard BMW rider, from the start kept telling me it was the steering head bearings. I changed everyother possible thing knowing it was not the steering head bearinds because i inspected them. Still had the decel wobble - I changed the sterring head bearings....of coarse, that fixed it. Damn BMW guys,,,think they know everything.
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Is this wobble with hands on the bars? If it is without hands on the bars it is completely normal. All bikes have a resonate frequency wobble at a certain MPH. Simple physics. Damping controls wobble. Your hands act as a damper because only a fool would take their hands off the bars while decelerating.
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At the beginning of the year I was having a bad what I’ll call handle bar wobble, turned out to be a cupped tire. Last weekend I was riding into a corner at 50mph and the bike started to “walk” to the outside of the turn barley kept it on the road. Rechecked the rear suspension and air where good tire needs to go but is not shot. My swing arm bushing looks dry and has some gaps. 2007 Electra glide uc. Should I rebuild the entire swing arm bushing sect or just replace bushing. Bike has 46,000
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