Is the front wheel in the right way round?
Bars/clip-ons straight?
Pasta farts
Is the front wheel in the right way round?
Bars/clip-ons straight?
Ta
My experience only, but swingarm bearings only cause issue in corners, (That was when they were beyond sloppy, and at the stage of being totally lose).Originally Posted by Mental-Trousers
And wheel bearings cause a higher frequency type weave, kinda shakey shakey type deal.
Glen Williams
Yip to order of checking, to tight steering head or worn, correct torque on swingarm (or worn), wheel alignment (stringline), if no strange wear patterns on tyres they shud be fine (some front dunnies run pretty high pressures though)
on the up
Yup. My money's on the steering head being just a tiny bit too tight for the bike's liking.
My FZR750R was a bit like that. You had to either have it loose enough that headshake was a bit of an issue, or tighten it so you got the tiniest of weaves.
Have you pulled the top triple off Tony? Those deltabox frames are reeeeeealllly susceptible to the front on bang and it can ovalise the steering head races slightly causing the bearings to just grab in the middle.
What's the wear pattern on the front tyre like? Are you getting feathering on the leading edges of the tyre pattern? That could be indicating something giving you grief.
110 section? yuck. Try a 120 and see if it smoothes off riding on less of a knife edge.
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No8 Wire Extraordinaire
No that's exactly what wheels out of alignment will do. That's why racers string line their wheels. not so noticeable at mid speeds but at low speeds the bike will wander in small oscillations & you'll think you're going crazy till you realise that it isn't you. Tends to show up again as instability at high speeds.That won't make it weave, though, just crab across the road. Oblig. DAMHIKFront wheel being out of alignment is normal, at least in corners
I've seen bikes that would weave when set up to the stock swingarm marks but needed to be adjusted 5mm off to get them running straight (and weave disappear completely). A crash may do this, but they are sometimes out from factory. I find a long bit of square tube the easiest for checking wheel alignment, string just seems too confusing to look at for me, but some people like it.
Course naff steering bearings will produce a similar effect as noted. Worn rear tyre will tend to make handle bars shake when slowing down, but not ness the same.
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His Excellency
Do the cheap things first. Tyre pressures, wheel alignment, Check triple clamp alingnment, SH bearings, wheel brgs. All cheaper than a set of tyres, and swingarm/suspension O/haul.
Good luck.
gee wizzz
Im gionna bung a new clutch in it then take it from there
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Ummm ... yer .... that should fix the weave ....
Forum whore
Check to make sure he hasn't had the front wheel off.
Took my old Z to Cycle treads and got new tyres on it once. Had a weave from 120k on after.
I thought for months it didn't like the newer shape tyres until one day I took the front off wheel off.
The Axle wasn't seated properly on one side. Throwing the wheel out, balanced ok, running true, but on a very slight angle.
Its worth a look anyway, won't cost you anything!
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gee wizzz
Ok I could do the puffed up chest thing and tell yas about stringlining this and adjusting that. Truth is though I made the most neeewb of newb mistakes. I trusted a shitbox gasstation pressure gauge.
Checked the tyre pressures tonight before a ride and bingo 24psi front and 30psi rear. Put air in tyres and weave has gone.
Now the bike just has all the expected traites a 1995 80k motorbike is expected to have
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hehe, coulda happened to anyone i guess... at least it was a cheap fix
NEDWN VIII
Hard case for sure, why did the 'KB Brains Trust' NOT come up with this on page one??....
hehe, coulda happened to anyone i guess... at least it was a cheap fix
No8 Wire Extraordinaire
'cause we all made an assumption & we all know about assumptions don't we? They make a sump . . . um,no wait, there's a trick to this.
Ohhh, they make a, . . no.
Must be something else I was thinking of.
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Ta
'cause we all made an assumption & we all know about assumptions don't we? They make a sump . . . um,
Ohhh, they make a, . . no.
Must be something else I was thinking of.
No no no, assumption, is the mother of all fuck ups.
Naughty Gentleman Biker
Don't assume, it makes an ass of u and me.
Glad you sorted it, it's a bastard how little things piss around so much with the way a bike behaves init.
Oh bugger
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