Any experience of swapping these bits greatly appreciated 
Anybody swapped the swinging arm bushes and engine mounts on a tourer?
- Thread starter Rob Farmer
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This isn't the airhead section you know.
You can't go bringing your mechanically handed ways with dirty motorcycle parts in here asking for advice.
We just talk bollox about doing stuff and add shiney or leathery bits with tassels or have someone else make parts from a highly prized metal called scratch.
Any actual advice about dirty work that needs doing and you'll be pointed elsewhere with a link.
You can't go bringing your mechanically handed ways with dirty motorcycle parts in here asking for advice.
We just talk bollox about doing stuff and add shiney or leathery bits with tassels or have someone else make parts from a highly prized metal called scratch.
Any actual advice about dirty work that needs doing and you'll be pointed elsewhere with a link.
Any actual advice about dirty work that needs doing and you'll be pointed elsewhere with a link.
I should have known better
lets try this one. where's the best place to hang tassles from...
Scared the shite out of myself riding back from Matlock yesterday so need to sort the handling out.
A big plus with the Harley was digging my old Land rover kit out and whacking everything with a big mallet. There's nothing delicate on them.
I should have known better
lets try this one. where's the best place to hang tassles from...
Scared the shite out of myself riding back from Matlock yesterday so need to sort the handling out.
They all do that Sir! Perfectly normal, nothing to worry about.
If you in fact find your bushings and rubber mounts are infact in tippety-top condition. You could do worse than fit one of these little gizmos (here comes a link to some shiny stuff)
http://www.progressivesuspension.com/tourlink/index.html
I fitted one to mine, all-be-it an early Twin Cam (same bloke, different hat) and it did help to avoid that hinged in the middle feeling. I fitted it after it nearly tossed me off on a sweepy mountain pass! Handles like an R1 now
http://www.progressivesuspension.com/tourlink/index.html
I fitted one to mine, all-be-it an early Twin Cam (same bloke, different hat) and it did help to avoid that hinged in the middle feeling. I fitted it after it nearly tossed me off on a sweepy mountain pass! Handles like an R1 now
They all do that Sir! Perfectly normal, nothing to worry about.
Mine feels like the old Harp advert. The top of the bike isn't moving but everything else is all over the place http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6-e81s6sas
If ever you find the elusive answer, do let us all know
Oh Dear!
I was having a life or death battle through the bends yesterday. Looked down at the speedo...50Mph
Oh Dear!
I was having a life or death battle through the bends yesterday. Looked down at the speedo...50Mph
I've never been able to look away from the road long enough to take in any speeds.
It's something to do with the survival instict - my eyes refuse to divert their focus from the rapidly and constantly altering position of the road.
I'm running 36PSI front and rear. I was told that was the optimum pressure. I'll try 40 though. I'm on Avon Venoms.
HD Dunlops run at 36psi.... I was told by a bloke down the pub that the sidewalls on the venom are not as stiff... So to run at 40psi...seems to work for me.. But I'm a fat bastard as well...
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36 front 40 rear.....No need to go tearing things apart then
Says I with a Fairground ride on a bikelift with not much left to it
Not taking the swing arm off though....I have lost interest already and it is going to be an effort to put it all back together as it is!!!!
Says I with a Fairground ride on a bikelift with not much left to it
Not taking the swing arm off though....I have lost interest already and it is going to be an effort to put it all back together as it is!!!!
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I had my local indie do the mounts and it definitely improved matters. A mate did his own swing arm mounts and it took him a morning but he says it has made a decent improvement
your trying to get above 50 mph ,good god man ,how are you ever going to catch site of yourself in shop windows ,at that speed,slow down ,look for a big shop window ,cruise past slowly look to the right and say to yourself .....looking good !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
air up the tyres and make sure you've got 20psi in the rear shocks - you know they have air shocks right ?
and air forks - needs some in their too.
with all this sorted out you may get up to 55mph..
i think its the missing motor mount but i haven't bothered yet - i quite like scaring the shite out of myself at garelli speeds...
and air forks - needs some in their too.
with all this sorted out you may get up to 55mph.
.i think its the missing motor mount but i haven't bothered yet - i quite like scaring the shite out of myself at garelli speeds...
air up the tyres and make sure you've got 20psi in the rear shocks - you know they have air shocks right ?
and air forks - needs some in their too.
with all this sorted out you may get up to 55mph.
i think its the missing motor mount but i haven't bothered yet - i quite like scaring the shite out of myself at garelli speeds...
I like the entertainment to be had at "high" speed.
Whenever mine gets all a bit too emotional and overexcited in the handling and i " want it to stop now please", i shout as load as i can and it stops all the collywobbles.
I found this out purely by chance as the first time it happened and i shouted in fear.
It's now my default setting for low cost handling improvements.
And strangely this has worked everytime i've tried it since.
air up the tyres and make sure you've got 20psi in the rear shocks - you know they have air shocks right ?
and air forks - needs some in their too.
with all this sorted out you may get up to 55mph.
i think its the missing motor mount but i haven't bothered yet - i quite like scaring the shite out of myself at garelli speeds...
Hagon shocks on the back if mine. Forks feel ok and the anti dive does a reasonable job.
I took it up to 80mph the other day but it wasn't a pleasant experience and now have a bubbling rear base gasket
Buoyed up by a reasonable amount of success in hustling through some bends in on smooth road I made the mistake of trying the same speed (50 mph) on Derbyshire roads, blind terror would be an understatement. We shan't mention the two L plated bikes that overtook me on the same stretch of road. I'm sure one was a 50cc Chinese scooter, hard to tell, he must have been doing 60 as he ripped past.
Apart from that I'm really enjoying it.
I took it up to 80mph the other day but it wasn't a pleasant experience and now have a bubbling rear base gasket
Apart from that I'm really enjoying it.
Mine does that too.... based on my research its a standard feature of the 1340 after a "high" speed run...
My Glide is rock solid till about 75.... then as the Batwing starts to try and fly it all gets a bit "difficult".....Also, i cant hear the Radio above 70.... so i just sit back and enjoy the view.....
