I would like to have your opinion on the following issue.
When riding my R1200GS (09) with one hand or no hands I feel (and see also) a very slight trembling of the bar around 60-65Km/H not while acceleration but only when leaving the throttle and rpms go down on their own.
Actually I don’t know if the term “trembling” is the correct one. It feels like a very fine oscillation that becomes obvious first on the mirror and after on the bar ends. Imagine that it does not affect the stability of the bike or the braking ability and you cannot say even that is annoying…..but….its something that I want to solve….or learn to live with
I feel nothing on speeds less that 55Km/H and nothing also from 70Km/H up to 170Km/H.
A very close friend of mine owns a motorbike tyre shop and we spend the whole afternoon on last Friday (shop closed) to check out almost everything. My friend performed both static and dynamic balancing on both spoked alloys, he checked all the spokes, the spoke mounting centres, frond shaft, and both bearings and found no problems at all….actually there was no need of any extra weight addition on the wheels since tires was changed from the previous owner 450Km before and balancing was found just perfect. Also the neck bearings found OK with no play at all.
He said to me to live with it or get read of the 46 Givi Top Case I mounted on the GS (I did that because the original BMW case is very small and my helmet does not feet in their). He said also that this is very common to most on-off bikes due to the change of their geometry, and that he heard in the past some other GS owners complaining about the same issue.
I have not checked yet the behaviour of the bike without the top case (actually I ride the bike almost 1 week)……so I will give it a try.
Your opinion or experience will be highly appreciated people!!!
When riding my R1200GS (09) with one hand or no hands I feel (and see also) a very slight trembling of the bar around 60-65Km/H not while acceleration but only when leaving the throttle and rpms go down on their own.
Actually I don’t know if the term “trembling” is the correct one. It feels like a very fine oscillation that becomes obvious first on the mirror and after on the bar ends. Imagine that it does not affect the stability of the bike or the braking ability and you cannot say even that is annoying…..but….its something that I want to solve….or learn to live with
I feel nothing on speeds less that 55Km/H and nothing also from 70Km/H up to 170Km/H.
A very close friend of mine owns a motorbike tyre shop and we spend the whole afternoon on last Friday (shop closed) to check out almost everything. My friend performed both static and dynamic balancing on both spoked alloys, he checked all the spokes, the spoke mounting centres, frond shaft, and both bearings and found no problems at all….actually there was no need of any extra weight addition on the wheels since tires was changed from the previous owner 450Km before and balancing was found just perfect. Also the neck bearings found OK with no play at all.
He said to me to live with it or get read of the 46 Givi Top Case I mounted on the GS (I did that because the original BMW case is very small and my helmet does not feet in their). He said also that this is very common to most on-off bikes due to the change of their geometry, and that he heard in the past some other GS owners complaining about the same issue.
I have not checked yet the behaviour of the bike without the top case (actually I ride the bike almost 1 week)……so I will give it a try.
Your opinion or experience will be highly appreciated people!!!
The used set saw no evidence of trembling at any speed range no matter if the GIVI was installed or not.
for not mentioning that, but I have placed on my EXP set, almost 11.000Km. Initially the trembling was around 60km/h and the last 4.000km moved between 60-85Km/h.
