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Asphalt cement crack sealer is the stuff they use to fill up the cracks in roads and parking lots when they didn't do a great job on the road to begin with. 3 days ago some big trucks came through sealing the right side of the Mountainous highway road I live on.
Yesterday it was a particularly nice day and when I got some kid relief I decided I needed to run down to the store which just happens to be 3 or 4 miles of some nice unpopulated stretch with hills and a slow downward grade on the side of a mountain with a super curvy bit at the end that wraps over and around a sizable stream (speed limit 25-35mph for the good parts and 45mph for the rest). I had just adjusted the rear shocks and wanted to see how my just broken in tires would perform and get a feel for what I might have to do to the forks this year.
The bike, a GS550ET which I've been slowly rebuilding, was running great and we reached 80+ before we lost sight of my house. Before I even had a chance to get to the fun bits I took a light turn which I normally don't even think about when the handle bars tried to shake out of my hands and the front tire did it's best to wobble and slide me off the road. Instantly I thought steering bearings, but I had just checked them out and I ride this turn regularly. I slowed down to a reasonable speed to take the next light turn the other direction at 40mph: Nothing! So I take the next few easy turns at the speed limit (45mph) and still nothing so i pick up the pace a bit but not crazily, and really swing a medium right with lovely precision. Right wasn't the original problem though, so I lean over the next good left as much as I think I can get away with and nothing again. Then I hit the next patch of newly sealed asphalt and while not turning at all the bike gives me an exaggerated version of that familiar rolling over cracks, lines, and scarified pavement feeling.
Now I may not have worked on every piece of a motorcycle but I'm no Bike Newb, I've never owned a new bike, and This 80 GS is the youngest bike I've ever had. I have ridden over this stuff plenty of times and usually don't even notice it. I watched the same trucks do a Wally World parking lot recently and out of curiosity took a look at the smooth goodness when they had past.
-Has anybody else notice this any where? I live in western Mass ( a beautiful place to visit!) and the road work here seems to get a little more slack every year.
-Shouldn't this be Illegal in some way? I mean it's a state highway! It's one of like three main roads in this entire part of the state, and to top it all off it's one of the nicest drives in my little area. I got to look up someone to call.
Just found this article about a similar problem this, was to wide mine are to high. (maybe that's the issue The work team is too high)
Later I got home did my fork oil (PO was running the front low) and today I took it out to get the feel of A GS550 with it's forks at spec and see if the old low fork oil was the real problem. It rode better But not to much. Not sure if I like the bike at full hight. (I'll give it a couple more days see if it grows on me).
Yesterday it was a particularly nice day and when I got some kid relief I decided I needed to run down to the store which just happens to be 3 or 4 miles of some nice unpopulated stretch with hills and a slow downward grade on the side of a mountain with a super curvy bit at the end that wraps over and around a sizable stream (speed limit 25-35mph for the good parts and 45mph for the rest). I had just adjusted the rear shocks and wanted to see how my just broken in tires would perform and get a feel for what I might have to do to the forks this year.
The bike, a GS550ET which I've been slowly rebuilding, was running great and we reached 80+ before we lost sight of my house. Before I even had a chance to get to the fun bits I took a light turn which I normally don't even think about when the handle bars tried to shake out of my hands and the front tire did it's best to wobble and slide me off the road. Instantly I thought steering bearings, but I had just checked them out and I ride this turn regularly. I slowed down to a reasonable speed to take the next light turn the other direction at 40mph: Nothing! So I take the next few easy turns at the speed limit (45mph) and still nothing so i pick up the pace a bit but not crazily, and really swing a medium right with lovely precision. Right wasn't the original problem though, so I lean over the next good left as much as I think I can get away with and nothing again. Then I hit the next patch of newly sealed asphalt and while not turning at all the bike gives me an exaggerated version of that familiar rolling over cracks, lines, and scarified pavement feeling.
Now I may not have worked on every piece of a motorcycle but I'm no Bike Newb, I've never owned a new bike, and This 80 GS is the youngest bike I've ever had. I have ridden over this stuff plenty of times and usually don't even notice it. I watched the same trucks do a Wally World parking lot recently and out of curiosity took a look at the smooth goodness when they had past.
-Has anybody else notice this any where? I live in western Mass ( a beautiful place to visit!) and the road work here seems to get a little more slack every year.
-Shouldn't this be Illegal in some way? I mean it's a state highway! It's one of like three main roads in this entire part of the state, and to top it all off it's one of the nicest drives in my little area. I got to look up someone to call.
Just found this article about a similar problem this, was to wide mine are to high. (maybe that's the issue The work team is too high)
Later I got home did my fork oil (PO was running the front low) and today I took it out to get the feel of A GS550 with it's forks at spec and see if the old low fork oil was the real problem. It rode better But not to much. Not sure if I like the bike at full hight. (I'll give it a couple more days see if it grows on me).
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