Front wheel lifting and violently wobbling

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LOL... no man, I ride a 750 with chicken stripes the size of a baby's arm. :)

Woah. I should just delete my account right now.. no way I can ever compete with that....
 
Since this is my thread - I'm the only person that hasn't yet forgotten about the 2WET vs Paul1000RR race-off..

Still waiting on times/dates so I can make arrangements/take time off work etc.

BTW - on the original topic of this thread, I found out this weekend what my problem was. I recently bought one of those expensive digital gauges and figured wth let's try it out (I KNOW I SHOULD BE CHECKING MY TIRE PRESSURE EVERY 23 SECONDS)... hadn't ridden my bike for a week... came downstairs to the garage and pushed the gauge in.. funny it reads 8 PSI.. must be broken.. let's try again.. 7.5 PSI.. godamn, now I gotta return it.. let me try my car.. 32psi...

I have a leak.

I remember riding a friends 300 and noticing how nimble and easy to turn in it was.. and it then hit me... I was riding a low pressure front tire this whole time.. once I filled it up, it felt EXACTLY like the 300.. dives right into corners.

So check your tire pressures folks... now I gotta decide whether to fill the tire up every week for the rest of the summer and get my 600 over the winter.. or invest in new tyres altogether.


Also I lost my expensive digital gauge somehow (I swear I put it in my rear seat cowl, it looked too big to fall through the body but who knows).

I'm a mess.

Not gonna happen since dude disappeared lol

Kinda like a lot of people on this site, all talk but zero action
 
does the bike make any sounds like...

YUUUTTT UHHHGNGNGNGGGNNNN when the wheel lifts?

and really, all these 'you should sit here' you should sit there comments, while valid, are hilarious.

if you understand that your weight has a HUGE influence on the way the bike moves and handles, then you will understand that where you sit and how you shift and put your weight will do different things. get comfy on your bike and take some time to feel out what weight shifting will do. if you feel the need to sit higher up for some reason...get a cushion.
 
Hey,

2wet

You are clearly a KJ and know very little about riding and physics.

Please accept the above challenge, you may have some riding prowess but I doubt it as you have no common sense.

In my 30 years of riding I've had many bikes, most came without steering dampener, so I rode for a while with out them.

In time, I would get a wobble, either from inconsistent pavement or aggressive riding. I can say with absolute certainty that the addition of a steering dampener reduced the severity or completely eliminated the wobble in ALL situations.

Sure some dampeners are only manually adjustable, they are the type I favor. You can easily tighten them up when getting on the HWY and ease the dampening for low speed city driving.

The reason I don't believe you have experience with steering dampeners is that when you hit a wobble at 250+km/h it scares the crap out of you even if you/I know how to stop it. So you get a dampener! Then it WONT HAPPEN AGAIN! not as bad or as long anyway!

Please keep your misinformation to yourself.
 
It's actually quite simple: Take it easy on cold tires. You dodged a bullet in that you narrowly avoided a tank slapper caused by a lightened front wheel, and off-centre steering input.
 
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