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From: dahlia350 on 22 Aug 2007 06:42 So I grew up riding BMW shaft drive, boxer engine, built like a rock and handles the same bikes and have until very recently had almost no experience with other bikes. So the other day I traded some old junk for some new junk in the form of a 1973 Cb350. Really it is a nice bike and the little woman will love it when I'm sure it is roadworthy This brings about my question. What's with the "wiggle"? I have noticed that in cornering and even on the straight lines it has a slight wobbly feeling to it. It does not feel like it is loosing grip or in any danger of falling over or slipping out from under me just an annoying slight shake from side to side. I'm thinking this may just be how it is when you have no steering damper, chain drive and not quite progressive shocks. I'm really hoping a bunch of you will just say something like "oh yeah they all do that" and "you betcha, get used to it" but I gotta know before I send the girl out on it. By the by, the bike is bone stock with brand new balanced tires front and back and has never been laid down at all from the look of it and by the DMV books has never been wrecked. Any help is really appreciated. Jack Seattle, WA
From: dahlia350 on 22 Aug 2007 06:46 By the way the bearings look great on the head-set and both wheels. Jack
From: Fake Name on 22 Aug 2007 08:10 >Any help is really appreciated. >Jack >Seattle, WA Just a quick guess here, the tires on your BMW's were all radial and the tires on the CB are Bias ply? If so, then yes. Nothing abnormal.
From: dahlia350 on 22 Aug 2007 08:09 I hadn't thought to check that but will as soon as I get home. Do they still make new bias ply tires for bikes? I had to search and pay through the nose for the bias tires on my 1950 dodge!!! Fake Name wrote: >>Any help is really appreciated. >>Jack >>Seattle, WA > >Just a quick guess here, the tires on your BMW's were all radial and >the tires on the CB are Bias ply? If so, then yes. Nothing abnormal.
From: oldgeezer on 22 Aug 2007 09:46
On 22 aug, 12:46, "dahlia350" <u36843(a)uwe> wrote: > By the way the bearings look great on the head-set and both wheels. > Jack I've been driving beamers for most of my life and was used to a rear-end wobble whenever I touched a white stripe on the tarmac. No big deal, I got used to it, thought it was the frame that did it. I used to mount the standard German Metzelers on them (mandatory in Germany, so I figured they were the best choice for a beamer) until one day the dealer was out of supply and I mounted another brand. Yokohama or something... All of the sudden the wobble was gone. Rob. |