Ever since I bought my ST1300 second hand, I have never been happy about the handling to me it always seemed light steering at low speeds...Spoken to various owners and tinkered more pre-load and lower front tyre pressure...these made it slightly better so I thought that was it, they handle like this not like my old 1100.....Time came to fit new tyres...Now I don't do many miles and these tyres had been on the bike since I bought it
On stripping the front wheel I found the spindle not flush with the Left hand fork leg as per instruction book.....On re-fitting I corrected this and assemble as correct....This meant the front wheel was floating about an 1/8" sideways end play.....This was frightening considering some of the speeds I have been doing.....would say this happened on a previous tyre change before I bought it...
Bike now steers normal after scrubbing in the new tyres
On stripping the front wheel I found the spindle not flush with the Left hand fork leg as per instruction book.....On re-fitting I corrected this and assemble as correct....This meant the front wheel was floating about an 1/8" sideways end play.....This was frightening considering some of the speeds I have been doing.....would say this happened on a previous tyre change before I bought it...
Bike now steers normal after scrubbing in the new tyres