black bart
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Hi Folks
Looking for some information regarding my 2009 Road King classic. Has anyone done any work on the steering head of this model, maybe upgrading the bearings to taper roller, any links or information or feedback would be great.
It all started with the Road King wobble at speed.
I felt the original suspension was bottoming out, especially when I was loaded for touring or had a passenger, checked the air pressure in the shocks and it was up at 11psi, the manual said 9psi max. fitted a set of hagon shocks and this has solved that problem.
Did not like the excessive fork travel on braking so fitted the progressive upgrade with sealed gas shocks, again problem sorted.
Bike still had a tendency to wobble at speed, only certain bends, and more often than not, downhill left handers, with the throttle rolled off, or just on the overrun. so fitted true tracks offering that pins the lateral movement down at the back of the engine, again an improvement, it feels checked but is still there sometimes, although I think the tyres are due for replacement, they have done 9000 miles, and have plenty of tread left but they are cupping on the front, and squirming over white lines. Only Dunlop make the rear tyre, anyone tried anything different on the back?
Has anyone done any work on the steering head of this model, maybe upgrading the bearings to taper roller, any links or information or feedback would be great.
thanks
bart
Looking for some information regarding my 2009 Road King classic. Has anyone done any work on the steering head of this model, maybe upgrading the bearings to taper roller, any links or information or feedback would be great.
It all started with the Road King wobble at speed.
I felt the original suspension was bottoming out, especially when I was loaded for touring or had a passenger, checked the air pressure in the shocks and it was up at 11psi, the manual said 9psi max. fitted a set of hagon shocks and this has solved that problem.
Did not like the excessive fork travel on braking so fitted the progressive upgrade with sealed gas shocks, again problem sorted.
Bike still had a tendency to wobble at speed, only certain bends, and more often than not, downhill left handers, with the throttle rolled off, or just on the overrun. so fitted true tracks offering that pins the lateral movement down at the back of the engine, again an improvement, it feels checked but is still there sometimes, although I think the tyres are due for replacement, they have done 9000 miles, and have plenty of tread left but they are cupping on the front, and squirming over white lines. Only Dunlop make the rear tyre, anyone tried anything different on the back?
Has anyone done any work on the steering head of this model, maybe upgrading the bearings to taper roller, any links or information or feedback would be great.
thanks
bart