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Mucho vibration thru handlebar's

outfit · 2008-05-11T06:08:21Z

I have an Earle's Fork front end with 15" car type wheel ( on a BMW R100 ). After haveing a new front tyre put on I'm experiencing alot of vibration at around 65 mph. Below this speed everything is fine. Before putting the new tyre on, I replaced the front swingarm bearing's and the steering head bearing's appeared to be okay as are the wheel bearing's. All sidecar attachment's are okay. I have messed around with the front suspension (soft/hard), but this has done nothing to rid the vibration. So would I be right in thinking that an out of balance wheel would induce this vibration at a certain speed? I cant get the wheel balanced on a machine because being modified for the bike it wont fit on one. When I look down at the wheel whilst on the move, it dont half look to be pattering a fair old whack and to hold onto the bar's at 65/70 mph is real annoying. Or have I missed something else? Safe riding Karl.

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good to hear outfit, hope your skys are as warm and sunny as ours, happy miles, crawf.

Posted : May 27, 2008 10:53 am

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