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Offline Novafrk

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Re: strange bounce
« Reply #75 on: December 29, 2014, 03:19:25 PM »
Congrats!!!

I'll be taking mine out NYD for my clubs annual ride and corned beef cook out. I'll know for sure then if the shock took care of my front end bounce.
88 K75S - My red headed mistress. Shhhh.

Offline i-man

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Re: strange bounce
« Reply #76 on: December 30, 2014, 08:39:29 PM »
Thanks!
I love this bike! I would never have thought I'd like it as much as I do. The sound is very un-motorcylce like, but I think It's awesome, in a turbo jet sort of way.

Offline Novafrk

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Re: strange bounce
« Reply #77 on: January 03, 2015, 09:55:44 AM »
From personal experience it's very easy to fall in love with the K bike.

The rear shock is fantastic! That said I still feel my bounce right at 40 mph. Think I'll demount and rotate the tire and have it re-balanced. It showed up after the new tires so that is where I will start.

We did about 80 miles on NYD. It's amazing how much those heated grips make the cold seem less severe.
88 K75S - My red headed mistress. Shhhh.

Offline pdg

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Re: strange bounce
« Reply #78 on: January 04, 2015, 06:03:59 AM »
Late to the party but I'm very surprised you didn't notice the correlation between a bent rim and a bit of bounce earlier... No amount of balance weights will make up for a dent. Like on mine, a previous owner hit a pothole and put a ding in the rim (you can see it without spinning it) and I have a little bit of uppy-downy action at certain (lower) speeds.

Just imo, balancing a wheel/tyre assembly will make no difference at all under about 40mph, unless it's getting on for a pound out. In fact, the only balancing of my k wheels I bother with is to make sure there is one at each end of the bike.

On a new tyre, there is very often a little coloured blob of paint on the sidewall - with this right next to the valve it is unlikely you will have any sort of balance issues. If there is a blob, and it's not next to the valve, then move it. Even a lot of 'professional' tyre fitters don't bother doing this (ignorance or laziness), instead preferring to rely on a load of weights stuck to the rim.
1988 K75S

Offline i-man

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Re: strange bounce
« Reply #79 on: January 05, 2015, 01:10:45 PM »
It's not surprising to me that I didn't notice the correlation, I can be a bit dense.

Looking back, i think what got me off into the weeds was that it came on all the sudden, the loose pinch bolts ect. I also don't make a big fuss about balancing wheels. Never seemed to be an issue in the past. maybe that's why it didn't make much of an impression on me when i noticed the couple of wheel weights missing, which it turns out, made the bounce more pronounced.

Offline pdg

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Re: strange bounce
« Reply #80 on: January 05, 2015, 02:03:49 PM »
It's not surprising to me that I didn't notice the correlation, I can be a bit dense.

I applaud your attitude :clap:

Lots of weights is always an offputting thing to see for a start, but it's very easy to get yourself all astray when you notice a list of possible 'problems' cropping up.

As for this 'stiction' thing being apparently a big issue - every sliding assembly ever made by anyone in the history of sliding things exhibits this behaviour to a greater or lesser degree. Fine, misalignment can exacerbate the situation but it's certainly not the root cause of it.
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