Fatboy likes to turn left without my permission. Anyone have any suggestions. Not that this happens very often, but if I'm ridin on a long stretch with the cruise on and take both hands off the handlebars for a little arm stretching, the bike goes left in a hurry. Is this a normal thing? Balance issue? Wheel alignment off? If I lean my body to the right it straightens out. Just looking for suggestions. And yes, I'm aware of the first suggestion to not take my hands off the handlebars so lets try to get past that one. I know somebody wouldnt have been able to resist!!

 

My first 2 thoughts are the steering neck fall away and wheel balance/true.

 

I've tried that on my Heritage before. I believe it goes left too. Could even be the way we are sitting on the bike at the time.

 

is the rear wheel set the same on both sides?

 

more weight on the left side of the engine

 

Don't take both hands off the handlebars and it'll stop going left!!

Duh.


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i noticed my bike does it too not much just wanders left..my sporty didnt do it..on the softail the rear belt is on the left as is the primary chain on the sporty the rear belt is on the right cancelling out so to speak the torque from the primary drive ..if that makes sense..tires do not show signs of wear or defects and for the most part the bike is wider on the primary side which may also cause it to wander

 

the primary is hanging out on the left side, it is pretty heavy, it pulls you that way.. lean right a little..

 

Going down the road a bike should want to continue going in a straight line, due to the centrifugal force.

Now if it only drifted a bit one way or another, weight might have something to do with it, but if I'm reading the post correctly he said it pulls quickly, which it shouldn't. If everything is correct on the bike it should continue in a fairly straight line.

I'm no Isaac Newton and I'm sure I'll be corrected if wrong, but that's my understanding.

 

most drift left due to extra weigh/mass on left side of engine.