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Please help my swirving 2 Years, 4 Months ago  
I need help trying to figure out what is wrong with my bike. My bike is swirving when I ride down the road and the faster i go the more it wobbles. It almost feels like i am getting a flat tire but the preasure is good. I have taken it to three different machanics and they all say that there is nothing wrong with it. I have put two different sets of tires on because somebody told my that I could have gotten a bad set and that did not help. One thing I have noticed is that my belt on the rear pulley is not always centered it is usually to one side or the other. The belt does not stay in the same position. I am at the point that i dont even want to ride because it does not feel safe. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks
 
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Re:Please help my swirving 2 Years, 4 Months ago  
Wow anything or a number of things could be bad,The belts in the tires,alignment,air presure posible wheel bearing?I would go to another yamaha dealer!good luck
 
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Re:Please help my swirving 2 Years, 4 Months ago  
slezy I am all of a sudden having trouble myself I wrote it up in the post "Cupping". I dropped the presure in the tires some but have a sttrange feeling it my be the front wheel bearings. I have aftermarket wheels with sealed bearings so I may end up changing the soon just to make sure. I will let you know what happens.
 
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Re:Please help my swirving 2 Years, 4 Months ago  
Curt ah life bad things come at us from nowhere all the time!Be carefull till you find the gremlin!!
 
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Re:Please help my swirving 2 Years, 4 Months ago  
Zeekdog mine was doing the samething it turned out to be a lose rear shock assembly.
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Re:Please help my swirving 2 Years, 4 Months ago  
I had the same problem, it ended up being a loose nut behind the bars!

Good luck with your troubleshooting and
 
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Re:Please help my swirving 2 Years, 4 Months ago  


I would take a really close look at everything on her. If you have a lift or a MC jack lift er up then check the following: check out the whole underneath: the shock, spring, broken frame spin the wheels listen for any odd noise wiggle side to side any play? check your front forks grab the forks at the front axle and pull/wiggle any play? check neck bearings. Measure the rear wheel alignment (measure from the swing arm bolts to the axle are they the same?

Look in the tech section for more info.

Hope this will give you a start.

Steven
 
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