1250 GS - Feels Squirrely

[Pablo1]

Thanks for the replies all, very much appreciated. Tyre wise the tread on them still look decent, the pressures are fine and they're on alloy wheels. It could be swapping them could solve my issues but...

I had a warning flash up on the dash. It only came up once and I can't get it to reappear so not sure if its nothing to worry about or if its related to the squirrely issue. "Spring strut adjustment faulty!" was the message. Anyone seen this before? Like I say, flashed up once and has now disappeared.

https://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php/500808-Error-code-‘Spring-Strut-Adjustment-Faulty’

 

[stanley]

Thanks for the replies all, very much appreciated. Tyre wise the tread on them still look decent, the pressures are fine and they're on alloy wheels. It could be swapping them could solve my issues but...

I had a warning flash up on the dash. It only came up once and I can't get it to reappear so not sure if its nothing to worry about or if its related to the squirrely issue. "Spring strut adjustment faulty!" was the message. Anyone seen this before? Like I say, flashed up once and has now disappeared.

I had that flash up once.
Towards the end of a long, loaded, two-up ride the handling went rubbish. It felt like riding a chopper: missing apexes and just not cornering properly. I realised that the rear shock had stopped self-adjusting and had dropped to it's minimum preload position.
Switched it all off whilst we had a brew... Returned to the bike, cycled it through its maximum height setting, than back to auto and all was well.
Never had it again.

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[darthwhite]

Also experiment with tyre pressures... mine gets pretty exciting solo at 36/42, especially on wet / slippy winter roads. At 34/40 it's much better. I'm using 1000 mile ish old Road Attack 3s.

 

[Jon101k]

I'll do that thanks, decided I'll not return it and just swap out the rubber and cross my fingers. Will let you know how I get on!

 

[Smartbazza]

Conti trail attack 3 will sort the noise and handling.

Barry

 

[Bem]

Also experiment with tyre pressures... mine gets pretty exciting solo at 36/42, especially on wet / slippy winter roads. At 34/40 it's much better. I'm using 1000 mile ish old Road Attack 3s.

I am happy with 32/36 when solo on Roadtech 01

 

[Jon101k]

Hi all, just wanted to say thanks again for the help. Issue resolved, it was 100% the tyres. Now that I've swapped them out its like a different bike!

 

[Bubb]

Which tyres did you go for.

 

[scarab1987]

I had exactly the same problem and my thought was at tyres. I have anakee adv. Finally I realised that the problem were the suspensions. Before 2 months I have replaced them with Tractive. It is like a new bike. Imagine that my tyres have now 17.000kms, 10 montgs old, and the bike turns like hell. So don't look around, if you want to change your bike, just change suspensions.

 

[Rockred]

Which tyres did you go for.

Don’t keep us in suspense, tell us what tyres you chose, or give us a clue..

 

[ChazzyB]

Anakees are shit, IMHO. I also found the OEM Tourances fitted to my Trumpy 1200 Scrambler to be positively scary. Partly worn, tramlining hideously.

However, I have a mate who rates Anakees. Each to their own, eh?