wobble and weave

[curlyjoe_imp]

I found a link over at the ST forum to this old video explaining motorcycle wobble and weave. I don't have the weave issue on either of my bikes so my sole reason for posting is I found it interesting and thought some of you may also find it interesting.

[Sam Mac_imp]

I weigh enough that I doubt I'll experience the dreaded weave problem.

[curlyjoe_imp]

I weigh enough that I doubt I'll experience the dreaded weave problem.

Mee too!

[the Ferret]

LOL that cracked me up. I matured riding in 1975 and never experienced the weave EVER, even when I weighed 128 pounds (not sure how many stones that is)

Apparently to stop it you just need to carry a heavy stone in your pocket.

[will866_imp]

Other than our weights, what prevents the wobble on modern bikes?

[the Ferret]

Tire pressure and condition, steering head bearing condition and tension, fork oil condition, F wheel to R wheel alignment, but don't worry about it motorcycles don't weave like that. Been riding since 1965 and have never experienced anything remotely close to that. I even owned or have ridden many of the bikes they showed in the video, 1000 Kawasaki, 750 Suzuki, BMW R90, 750 Norton. That was crazy funny.

[Cormanus]

LOL that cracked me up. I matured riding in 1975 and never experienced the weave EVER, even when I weighed 128 pounds (not sure how many stones that is)

Apparently to stop it you just need to carry a heavy stone in your pocket.

Or put one on!

Thanks for posting that curlyjoe. Good fun.

[Sam Mac_imp]

I resemble a boulder. Poor bike says get off me you fat pig when I get on it, but no wobble or weave problems. LMfatAO.

[the Ferret]

[Nortoon_imp]

LOL that cracked me up. I matured riding in 1975 and never experienced the weave EVER, even when I weighed 128 pounds (not sure how many stones that is)

Apparently to stop it you just need to carry a heavy stone in your pocket.

I only experienced speed wobble once in my 25 years of riding. It happened on my new 1972 Kawasaki H2 Mach IV (AKA the widow maker).



I was riding home on a city street when I heard a muscle car flexing its muscle on the freeway beside me. Being a twenty-something motorcycle yahoo, I decide to roar up the next on ramp and show him what was fast was all about.

As I passed him, the Kawashaky went into an extreme speed wobble and the muscle car went breezing by me as I struggled to say alive. I slowly exited at the next off ramp, very shaken by the experience.

The widow maker was a 3-cylinder 2-stroke jet with a very light front end. Wheelies were easy to perform. I only weighed 163 pounds soaking wet, so it was inevitable I would experience this sooner or later. A lessoned learned without damage, except to my foolish young ego.