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Been struggling with this for months, but as the bike in question was off the road during the winter (might as well stick to the other one and just let the one get covered in road sh*t).
had this Gs850 near 18 months and it's never handled, decidely twitchy around corners, at low speeds and can be a little nervious filtering. Very obvious that it has a problem when compared to my other one (same model and same year). The bike is okay at speed - it's just the cornering and low speed stuff.
* I changed the front forks to another set, put thicker oil in. They came with some air forks and I got a good second hand set of normal ones for ?30. Apart from a harder ride then there was no improvement
* I changed the wheel bearings. no change
* The bloke in the garage said 'tyre mismatch' so as the tyres reached wearout I swapped to a roadrunner on the back (November) but still had a virtually new arrowmax on front. I don't think it's the wheel balancing as both tyres have been changed and the front one was done by hand (although the rear was done by the local garage which 'does' motorcycles and the guy that did it rides some sort of plastic rocket and him and all his mates get theirs done down there). No tyre seal and they all appear to be sitting okay. anyhow no improvement.
* changed the rear shocks this weekend. no change.
All the head bearings seem okay and there is no freeplay there. The massive front mudguard has enough in it to brace the front forks and the other bike has nothing better. My next approach was to get a couple of new swingarm bearings and make sure that was adjusted. What else is there ?? I was thinking about swapping over components between the 2 bikes on a trial and error basis. Would an arrowmax front/roadrunner rear still be causing it - i can easily check that by swapping over wheels on the two bikes.
This is getting expensive ..........
Madoc
had this Gs850 near 18 months and it's never handled, decidely twitchy around corners, at low speeds and can be a little nervious filtering. Very obvious that it has a problem when compared to my other one (same model and same year). The bike is okay at speed - it's just the cornering and low speed stuff.
* I changed the front forks to another set, put thicker oil in. They came with some air forks and I got a good second hand set of normal ones for ?30. Apart from a harder ride then there was no improvement
* I changed the wheel bearings. no change
* The bloke in the garage said 'tyre mismatch' so as the tyres reached wearout I swapped to a roadrunner on the back (November) but still had a virtually new arrowmax on front. I don't think it's the wheel balancing as both tyres have been changed and the front one was done by hand (although the rear was done by the local garage which 'does' motorcycles and the guy that did it rides some sort of plastic rocket and him and all his mates get theirs done down there). No tyre seal and they all appear to be sitting okay. anyhow no improvement.
* changed the rear shocks this weekend. no change.
All the head bearings seem okay and there is no freeplay there. The massive front mudguard has enough in it to brace the front forks and the other bike has nothing better. My next approach was to get a couple of new swingarm bearings and make sure that was adjusted. What else is there ?? I was thinking about swapping over components between the 2 bikes on a trial and error basis. Would an arrowmax front/roadrunner rear still be causing it - i can easily check that by swapping over wheels on the two bikes.
This is getting expensive ..........
Madoc
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