T-Bag
04-20-2008, 09:01 PM
Fvck, I've had several scary moments over the last couple of days with my machine. On heavy acceleration, a few seconds after shifting from second to third (around 100-110mph) my front end gets so friggin light and would start throwing the bars in a mild tank slap. Friends behind me (the second time this happened) thought I was going down for sure...but I rode it out.
This started to concern me, as it was the second time it happened in a couple of days, so I went home and did some reading on suspension/fork tuning and what might be causing my problem. Turns out the rebound dampening adjustments were WAYYY out of wack. I'm talking the left fork was nearly 4 turns out and the right fork was only about 1 turn out. So I tuned the suspension based off of some recommended settings and hopefully this solves my problem. I also had to adjust the compression dampening on top of the forks a little bit.
Tank slapping is scary as shit, especially after happening several times. I think its also time to invest in a steering stabilizer.
This started to concern me, as it was the second time it happened in a couple of days, so I went home and did some reading on suspension/fork tuning and what might be causing my problem. Turns out the rebound dampening adjustments were WAYYY out of wack. I'm talking the left fork was nearly 4 turns out and the right fork was only about 1 turn out. So I tuned the suspension based off of some recommended settings and hopefully this solves my problem. I also had to adjust the compression dampening on top of the forks a little bit.
Tank slapping is scary as shit, especially after happening several times. I think its also time to invest in a steering stabilizer.