28-07-14, 10:02 PM
(28-07-14, 09:53 PM)unfazed link Wrote: Don't think it is a serious problem, mine was doing it since its first tyre change and still does it 84000miles later.
Balancing the front wheel improves it for a good while but it is always there. I remember years ago all fords cars had it at 40Mph and ford said it was harmonic resonance
Since I do all my own work and know everything is ok it never bothers me.
90% of the 600 I have ridden do it.
Never was sure why one would want to take their hands off the bars while riding at any speed :eek
cheers bud. yes, Ive read your many posts through this forums and you certainly have a lot of demonstrable experience and good advice. thanks for words of comfort.
BTW, FWIW, the hands-off was a suggestion caveated with lots of warnings about empty roads, early hours of the morning, no one around, wide quiet road, slow walking speed and gradually increasing, hands strong and close to the bars ready to take control...all that...a suggestion to diagnose whether it was a speed issue. The other suggestion was to take the wheel off and spin on a wheel stand - but I dont have one so took the racier option! It does not appear to be speed related. As said, balancing looks the candidate and the bike is in the shop tomorrow. The oscillation is less severe than the video above, but its unnerving at speed and needs sorting.