I bought a 1998 ST1100 back in 2018, it had been laid up for a few years but after a bit of tidying up, including new fork seals, it was running well, I have done over a thousand miles on the bike since putting it on the road with no handling issues, the agility surprised me for such a heavy bike
I was out riding with some friends last summer, we'd done about 60 miles and pulled over to say goodbye as we'd be going off in different directions.
I rode off on my 12 mile journey home, had gone about a mile or so when I noticed the front end didn't seem right as I approached 40mph
The best way to describe the symptoms is to say that it feels like the road has millions of small ripples in it causing the front end to shake constantly, makes it feel like you filings are going to fall out
The symptoms start at 45mph and get much worse as you approach 50mph, I have tried getting up to 60 to see if you power out of it and it does feel like you do, you certainly feel it as you come back down to 50mph, but as you can imagine I'm not to keen on doing that sort of speed for long with this sort of symptom
Below 40mph the bike feels prefect, you'd never know there was anything wrong with it
I have changed the front wheel and tyre, changed the forks, fitted tapered head race bearings and checked the frame etc for an obvious signs of cracking etc but the symptoms persists
I have searched through the forums etc but can't find anything that resembles this issue, I did find a few posts suggesting that headrace bearings could cause an issue which is why I changed mine as a precaution
This is driving me nuts and would appreciate any input
Cheers ... Chris
I was out riding with some friends last summer, we'd done about 60 miles and pulled over to say goodbye as we'd be going off in different directions.
I rode off on my 12 mile journey home, had gone about a mile or so when I noticed the front end didn't seem right as I approached 40mph
The best way to describe the symptoms is to say that it feels like the road has millions of small ripples in it causing the front end to shake constantly, makes it feel like you filings are going to fall out
The symptoms start at 45mph and get much worse as you approach 50mph, I have tried getting up to 60 to see if you power out of it and it does feel like you do, you certainly feel it as you come back down to 50mph, but as you can imagine I'm not to keen on doing that sort of speed for long with this sort of symptom
Below 40mph the bike feels prefect, you'd never know there was anything wrong with it
I have changed the front wheel and tyre, changed the forks, fitted tapered head race bearings and checked the frame etc for an obvious signs of cracking etc but the symptoms persists
I have searched through the forums etc but can't find anything that resembles this issue, I did find a few posts suggesting that headrace bearings could cause an issue which is why I changed mine as a precaution
This is driving me nuts and would appreciate any input
Cheers ... Chris