Hi all and thank in advance for reading my thread.
For those who have seen my introduction to the group you will know that i have recently passed my bike test and bought a st1300a.
Just a quick question, How much movement shoud the pan have in the handle bars, i beleive they have rubber dampners mounting them but not sure if mine are excessively worn or not as there seems to be quite a lot of movement.
Reason i am asking is, i have been out on the bike in quite a strong crosswinds, while riding even at low speeds i.e 30mph the rear end felt like it was fish tailing quite violent.
Although it only done it real bad the once, i have noticed it the odd time or 2.
My father who has been riding for many years took it for a little test ride to see if he felt what i was talking about, although it never done the fishtailing he did manage to make it do it by a slight shimmer on the handle bars, i,e although you was riding it with the slight shakes. (and i mean very very slight)
I then went back out on it with him following to see if i could replicate it by giving the handlebars a very slight wiggle while doing aprox 30mph, sure enough it did exacly what i was complaining about, but the bonus was that as my dad followed he could see how the back end was behaving. He was shocked with the ammount of fish tailing it did and said it looked like if i was to do it a tad more it would have chucked me off.
Any ideas ?
As although i am a new rider i would like to think i am fairly relaxed with regards to my grip on the hande bars.
I wasnt sure wheather the wind may have been buffeting on my front wheel which created the same effect
For those who have seen my introduction to the group you will know that i have recently passed my bike test and bought a st1300a.
Just a quick question, How much movement shoud the pan have in the handle bars, i beleive they have rubber dampners mounting them but not sure if mine are excessively worn or not as there seems to be quite a lot of movement.
Reason i am asking is, i have been out on the bike in quite a strong crosswinds, while riding even at low speeds i.e 30mph the rear end felt like it was fish tailing quite violent.
Although it only done it real bad the once, i have noticed it the odd time or 2.
My father who has been riding for many years took it for a little test ride to see if he felt what i was talking about, although it never done the fishtailing he did manage to make it do it by a slight shimmer on the handle bars, i,e although you was riding it with the slight shakes. (and i mean very very slight)
I then went back out on it with him following to see if i could replicate it by giving the handlebars a very slight wiggle while doing aprox 30mph, sure enough it did exacly what i was complaining about, but the bonus was that as my dad followed he could see how the back end was behaving. He was shocked with the ammount of fish tailing it did and said it looked like if i was to do it a tad more it would have chucked me off.
Any ideas ?
As although i am a new rider i would like to think i am fairly relaxed with regards to my grip on the hande bars.
I wasnt sure wheather the wind may have been buffeting on my front wheel which created the same effect