Vibration on a RK
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This is my first HD so I was wondering is it normal when riding for either of the mirrors to be vibrating enough to make things kind of blurring in them. I was under the impression that the rubber mounted motor would make it almost nil. All of this happened under 65mph and it seemed to be more prevalent in the left mirror more so than the right side. I can't feel a vibration in the bike itself really just the mirror image is a bit blurred. Is this normal or something I should have looked at?
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RE: Vibration on a RK
After just over 25 hours of ownership, I've only got 120 miles on my new 07 RK, but mine only vibrates that bad at idle. When going down the road, it's very smooth, in my opinion.
Might want to see how tight your mirrors are.
Might want to see how tight your mirrors are.
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This is my first HD so I was wondering is it normal when riding for either of the mirrors to be vibrating enough to make things kind of blurring in them. I was under the impression that the rubber mounted motor would make it almost nil. All of this happened under 65mph and it seemed to be more prevalent in the left mirror more so than the right side. I can't feel a vibration in the bike itself really just the mirror image is a bit blurred. Is this normal or something I should have looked at?
This is my first HD so I was wondering is it normal when riding for either of the mirrors to be vibrating enough to make things kind of blurring in them. I was under the impression that the rubber mounted motor would make it almost nil. All of this happened under 65mph and it seemed to be more prevalent in the left mirror more so than the right side. I can't feel a vibration in the bike itself really just the mirror image is a bit blurred. Is this normal or something I should have looked at?
No two of these bikes are the same. How many miles you got on the bike? Typically, it will smooth out someby 10K miles and be fine unless you have to replace the front motor mount, then the process will repeat.
On a smooth road, at about any legal speed, my mirrors areclear - IF I have my hands on the handlebar grips. If I'm riding with only one hand on the grip, the other side mirrormay blur some. With a bad motor mount, the bike may vibrate enought to where YOUR vision is blurred somewhat.
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Thanks to all for your responses. Some of it may be caused by the rubber motor mounts still being new the bike only has 120-150 miles on her. Next warm weather we have in Pennsylvania I'll have to pay closer attention to when I see the blur occur. The bike feels smooth I can not feel a vibration, and I wasn't really concerned just under the impression that the touring bikes had almost no vibration. Again, it isn't terrible I was more just inquiring cause I noticed it, like someone said in an earlier response the more the mounts break in the better all that should become.
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