Ok, so what's the hubub about riders who are experiencing a high speed chassis wobble. I have an '07 Road King Custom. If anyone has experience the "anomaly" I'd love to know what it's suppore to feel like. My scoot is smooth and steady

 

yeah, mine too. I can't seem to get in to a situation that causes a wobble <shrug>...

I guess some folks have it and some don't...

 

If you have it, you will know without any question.

I couldn't drive mine over 67 mph before I put on the true trak.

now its comfy over a hundred

 

was coming down the hwy from Mt. St. Helens following a group of riders going faster than I usually ride. Went into a long sweeping corner at around 90. I could clearly see at least a mile ahead. The road is very new and smooth although this corner had a few bumps part way through the corner. When I hit the bumps, the rear end bounced as expected and then bounced again on the second bump and this is when the front and back of the bike started to "wiggle". Bike felt very loose like I was on wet pavement. Would not stop until I rolled off the throttle and got down to around 60. I think my heart skipped a few beats in the meantime.

I could also get my bike to feel loose by wiggling the bars back and forth quickly at any speed. Feels like the back of the bike is wagging back and forth. Since installing the stabilizer, this is gone.

I understand completely when someone posts that they haven't felt the wobble. It is hard to describe unless you've felt it.

However, it is easy to feel the difference in my bike since installing the stabilizer.

If you haven't felt the dreaded "bagger wobble", you are fortunate. Several articles in the magazines can attest to it. Hundreds of forum members can also and have installed some form of a rear stabilizer to cure this design flaw. In fact, entire companies have built their businesses around it. Sta-bo, Ride-Str8, Allow Arts, True Trac, TWR, just to mention a few.

Lastly, I believe that the MOCO would be selling a kit just like everyone else BUT that would involve admitting a design flaw. So what did they do? . . . redesign the entire frame and engine mounting system for 09. Now there is your real answer!

Just my 2 cents (maybe 10 cents) on this issue.
Steve

 

High speed sweeping turns.

I have a highway interchange I hit everyday on the way home with a long sweeping right hand curve. If I am over 70 I feel it everytime. Speed limit is 60. If you stay in the speed limit and don't push it in curves, you'll probably never feel it.

In a curve like that you will feel the rear end wobble. Feels like the rear end is following a groove. It will make you pucker the first time you feel it but when you get used to it, know what causes it and when it might happen, and know that you can control the bike through it, it's not that big of deal.

In my opinion, unless you go all out in every curve you come across, it's not worth spending $400+ on a ridestr8 or something similar. If you ride like that all the time, I'd recommend you consider something other than a touring bike.

 

I think the bikes prior to 06 were more susceptible to it. I haven't had a lick of problem with my 08, but my 04 is all over the place. I don't even like going over the dashed lines or reflectors when changing lanes at freeway speed on the 04. Georgia State Patrol uses 07 FLHTP's and they've complained of the high-speed wobble. I've heard it's a problem with the frame. The 09's have probably fixed all that.
Ben

 

I have never felt this wobble. May be it is driving style more than bike mechanics.

 

If you haven't felt it, "PRAY THAT YOU NEVER DO!"

 

I feel it in my 08 Ultra coming through the back side of right hand sweepers.

 

Its about the same feeling as lose or bad stearing head bearings. If its a real bad wooble you can end up going down. Some bikes have it and some don't.
I had a 04 eglide that wouldn't wooble untel in the triple didgets in long sweepers that were rough.
Tuna