Luk77
New Member
Hello all of you.
Since this is my first post I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Lukas, I live in Poland, and am almost 40 years old.
At the moment I am a lucky (almost) user of FZ6 S2, build year 2008. I own this bike for 6 years now, when I bought it in 2010 it had a mileage of 10 kkm (now almost 30k). In general I have no mayor problems with this bike. The only problem that I kind of feel is that when I'm riding it looks like the bike is pulling a bit to the side. Previous user never said a word about any accidents or falls. When I was buying it I checked it with a friend of mine who sells bikes, so kind of person who knows what's going on in the business. So I was almost sure that there should not be any problems with my new machine. After couple of runs I began to have a feeling of this little pulling to the side. It was quite different with my previous bike, ZX6-R that was going straight no matter the speed was, I could take my hands off the steering and it was going like on rails. And this FZ6 behaves in a different way, when I take my hands off the steering bike is starting to pull or turn to side. I can reduce this movement with body balance, but I guess that's not what I expect from my machine. I would like it to go straight, simple as that. Sometimes I have the feeling that I have to pull the steering on the left side and push on the right one, especially in the hairpins.
So where's the problem? What should I do, what should be checked? If the bike had an accident or fall than I think the front suspension is the problem. The axis looks good, wheel is fine (it was checked when I changed the tires). Maybe suspension forks? There are no leaks, they look OK, I tried to turn them about 90 degrees each but nothing changed. Maybe triple tree is somehow distorted? How to check it? Or maybe steering head bearings should be replaced? The last thing is frame, but that would be much bigger problem...
If you have any thoughts thanks in advance.
Regards
Lukasz
Since this is my first post I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Lukas, I live in Poland, and am almost 40 years old.
At the moment I am a lucky (almost) user of FZ6 S2, build year 2008. I own this bike for 6 years now, when I bought it in 2010 it had a mileage of 10 kkm (now almost 30k). In general I have no mayor problems with this bike. The only problem that I kind of feel is that when I'm riding it looks like the bike is pulling a bit to the side. Previous user never said a word about any accidents or falls. When I was buying it I checked it with a friend of mine who sells bikes, so kind of person who knows what's going on in the business. So I was almost sure that there should not be any problems with my new machine. After couple of runs I began to have a feeling of this little pulling to the side. It was quite different with my previous bike, ZX6-R that was going straight no matter the speed was, I could take my hands off the steering and it was going like on rails. And this FZ6 behaves in a different way, when I take my hands off the steering bike is starting to pull or turn to side. I can reduce this movement with body balance, but I guess that's not what I expect from my machine. I would like it to go straight, simple as that. Sometimes I have the feeling that I have to pull the steering on the left side and push on the right one, especially in the hairpins.
So where's the problem? What should I do, what should be checked? If the bike had an accident or fall than I think the front suspension is the problem. The axis looks good, wheel is fine (it was checked when I changed the tires). Maybe suspension forks? There are no leaks, they look OK, I tried to turn them about 90 degrees each but nothing changed. Maybe triple tree is somehow distorted? How to check it? Or maybe steering head bearings should be replaced? The last thing is frame, but that would be much bigger problem...
If you have any thoughts thanks in advance.
Regards
Lukasz
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