So yesterday I was out for a ride on my 2020 V85TT ~23000 miles. As I was riding for some reason, maybe just giving the arm a rest I had my left arm hanging down by the front sub-frame mount. For some reason I grabbed where the sub-frame mounts and felt that it was moving. Not a lot but I could feel it. I had the cruise on and checked the right side and no movement.
I pulled into a gas station to check to see what was up. The Allen head was in place. I had so Allen wrenches so I tried to tighten the bolt. It was tight in both directions and wouldn't move. Road it home and pulled the bolt and you could see on the face of the head that it had wear marks. I believe the bolt was bottomed out, I also think that the hole is not threaded thru and thru.
I put a washer on the bolt as a spacer and the bolt tightened full and the sub-frame stopped moving.
Kind of a weird thing but thought I would give those with V85TT's a heads up to check for the sub-frame movement.
I pulled into a gas station to check to see what was up. The Allen head was in place. I had so Allen wrenches so I tried to tighten the bolt. It was tight in both directions and wouldn't move. Road it home and pulled the bolt and you could see on the face of the head that it had wear marks. I believe the bolt was bottomed out, I also think that the hole is not threaded thru and thru.
I put a washer on the bolt as a spacer and the bolt tightened full and the sub-frame stopped moving.
Kind of a weird thing but thought I would give those with V85TT's a heads up to check for the sub-frame movement.
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