2010 Road Glide...Wobble @ 40 mph???
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+1 A new tire made mine all better. On the other hand a one legged pygmy did fall off my fork baffle while the Voo Doo High Priestess danced around my bike waving a dead chicken.
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I had a high speed wobble on my 2010 FLHTCUSES5 CVO. I am still in wheel chair. This happen on April 25 of this year. The bike was taken to HD shop where I got it for the 1000 mile check up. I told them about the wobble then and they said they could find nothing wrong with it. I had 2041 miles on it when it happen, straight road and yes both hands were on the bars. There was 5 other HD with me when it happen doing the same speed an none of them wobble. And yes we were speeding.
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I had a high speed wobble on my 2010 FLHTCUSES5 CVO. I am still in wheel chair. This happen on April 25 of this year. The bike was taken to HD shop where I got it for the 1000 mile check up. I told them about the wobble then and they said they could find nothing wrong with it. I had 2041 miles on it when it happen, straight road and yes both hands were on the bars. There was 5 other HD with me when it happen doing the same speed an none of them wobble. And yes we were speeding.
First of all, I hope you're doing well, and continue to improve...You issue may or may not have been related to the same thing. I would encourage you (or your attorney) to look into the steering neck bearings, as HD issued a Service Bulletin (posted a little earlier on in this stream of posts) that you may want to reference as the root of your problem...Good luck and ride safe...
Regards,
Jim
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First of all, I hope you're doing well, and continue to improve...You issue may or may not have been related to the same thing. I would encourage you (or your attorney) to look into the steering neck bearings, as HD issued a Service Bulletin (posted a little earlier on in this stream of posts) that you may want to reference as the root of your problem...Good luck and ride safe...
Regards,
Jim
First of all, I hope you're doing well, and continue to improve...You issue may or may not have been related to the same thing. I would encourage you (or your attorney) to look into the steering neck bearings, as HD issued a Service Bulletin (posted a little earlier on in this stream of posts) that you may want to reference as the root of your problem...Good luck and ride safe...
Regards,
Jim
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From: South Florida
Jim
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Yours may be the best post here...Just sayin'...
I love my ride too, especially now that I solved this issue...
I love my ride too, especially now that I solved this issue...
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Riding home from Sturgis I got the wobble in the 35 t0 45 mph range and it scared the crap out of me. I was keeping my hands on the bars after that encounter. Thanks for this post. Off to the dealer... Hopefully they'll fix it right the first time!
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2010 Roadie Wobble
Don't you get tired of all the blind Harley support that gets spewed on the internet? I have a 2010 Roadie and it shook to beat hell. I took it to the stealership several times and they said "the motor company's response to the issue is don't take your hands off the handlebars". Then, after experimenting with a bunch of rental bikes the Svc Mngr told me Harley says "turn the front tire around and ride against the tread
". How stupid is that? But this week I took the bike in for it's 5,000 mile check-up and once again asked that they look into the wobble. Now the bike rides like it should. No wobble, no shimmy and no heavy front-end steering. They wouldn't tell me exactly what they did but said their best techie worked on it and gave it several test rides. I think the reason they don't want to tell me is because of the inter-dealership competition. But I don't really care what they did, it rides great at all speeds now. All it takes is a good tech who is willing to get past the oil change mentality.
". How stupid is that? But this week I took the bike in for it's 5,000 mile check-up and once again asked that they look into the wobble. Now the bike rides like it should. No wobble, no shimmy and no heavy front-end steering. They wouldn't tell me exactly what they did but said their best techie worked on it and gave it several test rides. I think the reason they don't want to tell me is because of the inter-dealership competition. But I don't really care what they did, it rides great at all speeds now. All it takes is a good tech who is willing to get past the oil change mentality.