Martyn
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I get oversteer/front tuck in on my 2015 RT using recommended tyre pressures. Michelin tyres. Any suggestions?
2015 RT handling issue.
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Oversteer and front tuck?
Oversteer is the back end stepping out, the roads are slippy at the mo, try using less throttle!
Are you sure its not just a feeling of tucking?
I think if the front was really tucking the chances are you'd be lying under the bike on the other side of a hedge.
My dad and brother had a K1 and it always felt to me that the front was tucking, but it was just the way the bars moved which felt unnatural to me. Having tried to keep up with them on the K1 on various machines, it was obviously me not the bike.
It sounds to me like you are fighting it rather than trusting it. It will run wide if you think its tucking and are stopping it from leaning over further.
Cry bollocks if you like, but if you are losing the front end consistently on an RT then you should be on the track.
It could be a shite tyre or a mechanical issue though, a dealer should spot it fairly easily if its the bike.
Oversteer is the back end stepping out, the roads are slippy at the mo, try using less throttle!
Are you sure its not just a feeling of tucking?
I think if the front was really tucking the chances are you'd be lying under the bike on the other side of a hedge.
My dad and brother had a K1 and it always felt to me that the front was tucking, but it was just the way the bars moved which felt unnatural to me. Having tried to keep up with them on the K1 on various machines, it was obviously me not the bike.
It sounds to me like you are fighting it rather than trusting it. It will run wide if you think its tucking and are stopping it from leaning over further.
Cry bollocks if you like, but if you are losing the front end consistently on an RT then you should be on the track.
It could be a shite tyre or a mechanical issue though, a dealer should spot it fairly easily if its the bike.
Speak to this guy he's got the same problem.
http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php/391773-2015-RT-handling
Depends also on what you have come from... If its GS type bikes then the R12 RT both air and I expect LC will feel a bit sharp on the steering... The old RT's were far more stable and predicable but as with many a rider who had Pan 11's to 13's... They could find the later bikes needed a bit more tender handling that levering in a fairly slow steering bus of a thing... Subtlety is probably the key...
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