Anyone else noticed this on their 12GSA?

[leanover]

Now I'm not sure how long you chap/est have been riding motorcycles but it not like a new BMW Motor car !! The forks will be stressed by the nature of the road and will give a false view of the the bars on the bike/road.
You can frig around with the nuts, bolts, head lock, forks, and all the stuff. But if you can ride and look ahead not at the bars and feel you are enjoying the ride, just stop trying to make things which are are not!!
Not a perfect world ...just a GS make in German. (if you had a jap cruch rocket the bar are so small you would not see any problem.
Just ride the bike!!! and enjoy. Also read 'Phil Irving motorcyle enginering' and then you will under stand the basic of why your bike does what it does.

As stated before.

(Well what about the camber of the road..if you are (I guess) on the left hand side of the road you will need, by default to steer to the right!!..and not know it!
Case Solved!)

Sorry for rant...but get so concerned with let try and fix it..It only a motorcycle, make of plastic and metal. Not a two ton car.


IOM 1965 manx
ISDT 1966
SSDT 1967
and many more
07 R1200GS My bars go slightly to the right on some camber with a little power on and tyre still on road.

Well, no offence, but going with that line of thought we can all happily ride along with the front wheel pointing straight ahead and the bars at a 45 degree angle!!!

 

[miffolump]

Went back to the dealers and, after a test ride of my bike, they agreed the bars were indeed pointing to the right whilst riding in a straight line.

After loosening the bolts on the fork brace and adjusting the forks slightly everything is now perfect. Just an alignment issue I guess, all fixed within minutes.

Or I could have just taken Seatownmaster's advice and put up with it. Yeah, right.

 

[GreyGhost]

Simple, your arms are different lengths - probably a birth defect. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

 

[John Armstrong]

Or I could have just taken Seatownmaster's advice and put up with it. Yeah, right.

Read somewhere that everything on the internet is an "opinion". Up to you if you use it or ignore it

 

[Schwarz Baron]

Just for the Doubting Thomas's. Just got round to sorting mine out. Took the advice and remeasured the bars. Not from the bar ends but the edge of the grips, as the bar ends are of different length on the ADV. That sorted, there was still a slight noticeable difference. Next step. loosened the pinch bolt on the axle then the brace. Retightened all, got on the bike and rode it...Hey Presto, fixed. Perfectly Square! Relief all round!

Thanks to those who advised!

Have to say, as per the sticky thread. The pinch bolts weren't overly tight!