My Front End Wobbles!!

[Trikeman5328]

Here's something else you can check. Make sure that your brake disks are not dragging. That can create a wobble also.

Hope this helps

[Motorcycle Forum]

[davemo]

I ride an '03, Intruder 1500LC with about 12K plus change. I noticed that I've had a front end wobble since I bought the bike about six months ago. (Local one owner)
This wobble was really quite noticible especially when decellerating and doesn't go away at any speed.
In an effort to rid myself of this problem I bought new Pirelli tires and had them installed. The wobble continued!
I took the bike to a dealer a week ago. They checked for front stem play...none. Then for a bent rim or bad tire...none. The front axle is fine but the wobble still persists.
This wobble is quite signifiant! Riding with one hand at sixty mph, you can feel the back & forth wobble.
Have any of you run into this problem?
The dealer says that it is "normal" to have a wobble on a cruiser, but the sport bikes has no wobble.

CD

i had a mid 80's suzuki gs 850 that was bought new and that had a bad wobble at 115 mph and the dealer said the same thing that it was normal and bikes are not meant to go at that speed. needless to say i did not own that bike for to long after that, nice to see suzuki's still have wobble problems

[Fire_Marshall13]

Sir. From what I have read, You are describing Head Shake. You should not ride this bike until you have corrected this problem, My son died in a solo motorcyle accident from what we believe was head shake ( he was not speediing and no other vehicles involved. A car of friends were behind him and witnessed the accident. State Police determined between 45 mph and 55 mph in a 55 mph zone on a streight highway) The company that manafactured the bike did have a recall on the triple tree bearings (forks meet frame bearings) They stated that they had changed them but we were unable to prove it. You need to take it to someone who has a good reputation and knows what he is doing.The dealer you talked to is most definitly incorrect. No bike should shake period! Some bikes are a little more nimble/sencetive in steering than others. You would need to understand (Steering AxisInclination first ) this is the angle of the forks in relation to the frame. when you were a kid you would cut the forks off of your bicycle and make them the new ones stick way out, so that you had a chopper. You changed your steering axis which made the bicycle handle diffrently. Now if you move your forks in your steering gets really sensitive like power steering. Cafa racers (example would be a NIJA) are really sensitive because the wheel is so close to the frame. If you look streight down from the top of the bike over the handle bars the forks look almost streight. but no motorcycle should have head shake period! This is an extermely dangerious situation. I wish you the best of luck , but I would NOT get near it until it was fixed in any case. Chris