Double Dark Front
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Double Dark Front
Finally went to a Battle Ax on the front, everything was fine the first 1,000 miles. Than the other day I now have a wobble, feels like my old Road King used to due, they called it the "Death Wobble" So if I roll on the throttle to 75-85 and let off it starts to shake. I also noticed that when I first put front tire on, the front end was lighter. Anyway I at lost to understand the why and how to fix problem short of putting another OEM tire back on. I use Dyna Beads to balance and have for years on everything else never a problem. I have played around with the air pressure put didn't help. The other change I did was to put a angle air stem valve on at the time of tire change.
I been running CT on my GoldWing for years, and went Double Dark on GW a while back with no issue's.
After researching this, I am some what confused about it all. The bike is fairly new. 2014 FLHTK purchased it in 2015 new. Never been wrecked, now has 14,000 miles on it. No issue's with the rear CT. I have read about this happening but once into the threads suggestions go all over the place. I am hoping that you old timers have come across this and perhaps could clear the fog out of my thinking. Thanks for any suggestions.
I been running CT on my GoldWing for years, and went Double Dark on GW a while back with no issue's.
After researching this, I am some what confused about it all. The bike is fairly new. 2014 FLHTK purchased it in 2015 new. Never been wrecked, now has 14,000 miles on it. No issue's with the rear CT. I have read about this happening but once into the threads suggestions go all over the place. I am hoping that you old timers have come across this and perhaps could clear the fog out of my thinking. Thanks for any suggestions.
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I have got a 150 series Battle Ax on the front of my bike. Maybe 1500 miles on it. Mine has always been smooth as silk. Not a wobble, or a vibration or anything at all. I am running Ride On in both front and rear...
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dyna beads
MtTurbo got me thinking about my spare battleax. I have put on twice and ended up pulling it back off because of a shimmy at 70MPH.
I finally pulled the tire off the rim and took the dyna beads out of it. I was going to bring it and get it balanced to see how much weight they used, but when I got the tire off it had about 10 Oz of dyna beads in it. Now I'm thinking maybe I put too many in when I first mounted it and added a couple of times to try to get rid of the shimmy.
I decided to try it again with just a couple of Oz in it and see how it goes now.
Anyone have any experience with using too many dyna beads?
I finally pulled the tire off the rim and took the dyna beads out of it. I was going to bring it and get it balanced to see how much weight they used, but when I got the tire off it had about 10 Oz of dyna beads in it. Now I'm thinking maybe I put too many in when I first mounted it and added a couple of times to try to get rid of the shimmy.
I decided to try it again with just a couple of Oz in it and see how it goes now.
Anyone have any experience with using too many dyna beads?
Last edited by rkoivisto; Jul 23, 2016 at 12:21 PM.
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