Bags vibrating??
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Also, remove both bags and CLOSELY examine all of the hardware and mounting system. Excessive vibration is very destructive.
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From: Hoffman Estates, IL
Several years from now, you'll hear a bunch of squeaking - Not unlike an old bed, coming from behind you. It'll be very loud, very annoying and you'll think that something is about to fall off the bike at certain speeds.
It'll probably start when you're a couple hundred miles from home and you'll be wondering if one of your saddlebags are going to jump off the bike while you're on the highway.
Dark thoughts may soon enter your mind while the squeaking slowly drives you mad and passively whittles away at your will to live. Don't give in to them. Don't let the squeak demons ruin your life.
Pull into a gas station and get a tube of graphite in a liquid suspension - Lock thaw perhaps.
Take the bags off and squirt a little of the black gold wonder liquid on the rubber mounts where the bag rails bolt to the muffler mounts. Because it's not the bags - It's that rubber mount hardening and making an incredibly bad squeaking noise against that little metal strip.
Have a little coffee, get back on the bike and forget your worries once again.
And maybe nip it in the bud before it ever happens with a drop or two of molybdenum in a liquid suspension a couple times a year (Bike Slide - I think it's called Bike Slide - is a moly-based cable lube that works wonders). I hit those mounts pretty much every time I really *wash* the bike.
Sorry - didn't mean to derail the thread - But it's kind of like prostate problems - Some of use are just going to have them and ignoring the problem won't make it go away. But unlike most prostate problems, this irritant can be prevented.
It'll probably start when you're a couple hundred miles from home and you'll be wondering if one of your saddlebags are going to jump off the bike while you're on the highway.
Dark thoughts may soon enter your mind while the squeaking slowly drives you mad and passively whittles away at your will to live. Don't give in to them. Don't let the squeak demons ruin your life.
Pull into a gas station and get a tube of graphite in a liquid suspension - Lock thaw perhaps.
Take the bags off and squirt a little of the black gold wonder liquid on the rubber mounts where the bag rails bolt to the muffler mounts. Because it's not the bags - It's that rubber mount hardening and making an incredibly bad squeaking noise against that little metal strip.
Have a little coffee, get back on the bike and forget your worries once again.
And maybe nip it in the bud before it ever happens with a drop or two of molybdenum in a liquid suspension a couple times a year (Bike Slide - I think it's called Bike Slide - is a moly-based cable lube that works wonders). I hit those mounts pretty much every time I really *wash* the bike.
Sorry - didn't mean to derail the thread - But it's kind of like prostate problems - Some of use are just going to have them and ignoring the problem won't make it go away. But unlike most prostate problems, this irritant can be prevented.
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