Got the oil cleaned up as best I could after my stupid move of forgetting to connect the frame vent line. What an oily mess! Cleaning up every thing was as bad as trying to get a sticky booger off your finger. It’s as clean as I was willing to clean it and will let any missed residual burn off!
I’m still stuck with this “highway speed” wobble. It’s bad enough, I won’t let my wife on it until I figure it out. Read through this and other forums looking for suggestions. Have gone through tire pressures, head bearing torque, adjusted steering damper, with/without steering damper (albeit not a new damper), raised forks 0.5”, 0.75” and even tried a full inch. Same exact results over the 4 heights. Settled on 5/8” for now. Handles the curves great at this height. Tomorrow I’ll take the little faring off and see if that makes a difference. If the wobble goes away without the faring, I can’t imagine “touring” without a screen.
This evening while stirring my roux, i concluded that I won’t put much more time into this bike. Sounds absolutely awesome, tons of power, love riding in the curves with my feet on the rear pegs, but I’m chasing after lighter bike weight for touring and forcing myself to make THIS bike work. Making a roux gives a person a good 45 minutes of time to “think”. All I thought about was this dang steering wobble and how it might derail my light two up touring bike plans. All is not lost, I’ll move on and try the 85TT if this doesn’t work out.
I’m still stuck with this “highway speed” wobble. It’s bad enough, I won’t let my wife on it until I figure it out. Read through this and other forums looking for suggestions. Have gone through tire pressures, head bearing torque, adjusted steering damper, with/without steering damper (albeit not a new damper), raised forks 0.5”, 0.75” and even tried a full inch. Same exact results over the 4 heights. Settled on 5/8” for now. Handles the curves great at this height. Tomorrow I’ll take the little faring off and see if that makes a difference. If the wobble goes away without the faring, I can’t imagine “touring” without a screen.
This evening while stirring my roux, i concluded that I won’t put much more time into this bike. Sounds absolutely awesome, tons of power, love riding in the curves with my feet on the rear pegs, but I’m chasing after lighter bike weight for touring and forcing myself to make THIS bike work. Making a roux gives a person a good 45 minutes of time to “think”. All I thought about was this dang steering wobble and how it might derail my light two up touring bike plans. All is not lost, I’ll move on and try the 85TT if this doesn’t work out.