GkS
Junior Member
Hi guys!
Well, the title says it all, but let's just look back a bit in order to have a complete view.
My fazer has always been a bullet, an arrow on open roads and pretty smooth when entering corners. After 30.000 excellent kilometers, I decided to change fork springs and put the ones from Ohlins, that Yamaha sells here in my country.
I've put the springs with a 10th grade spring oil and I felt the change imediately....nice and smooth, but a bit scary in the beginning, cause of difference I must admit. But it actually was a lot better once I started making trips.
I was enjoying it, when suddenly, not a long time after, one day on a ride, without understanding what happened I was dropped out of a corner, not going fast, tasting the asphalt and for my luck I didn't fall off a cliff....I'm not so inexperienced, I ride motorcycles something like for 18 years and have also been to tracks, but anyway I blamed my self for it, human error I said...I got distracted probably, completely fixed the bike (only a roller and a steering bar) and even if a problem on my shoulder is still there, I started riding again, without serious problems.
The main thing now is, that after a trip I had this summer, bike + me and gf + loaded, I kinda like feel now that on cornering bike is not stable any more. I feel like the tail is making strange movements and the front is getting lifted up, in such a degree that I actually fear leaning any more because of feeling that I'm loosing traction. I tried to increase shock's level, made the absorber a bit harder, but still that feeling of smoothnes is long gone.
Now I'm fearing that this is some kind of serious problem with the bike, but still I haven't figured it out yet. Mecchanic says it's the shock absorber that's wasted, how can that be? friends say it's psychological after the accident, it could be, but why didn't it happen imediately after the accident?.....I still don't know what it is for sure....
Anyone had the same feeling, any ideas what could that might be? Currently, odometer at 42.500km and tires are new and in perfect condition.
Just looking for ideas....
Well, the title says it all, but let's just look back a bit in order to have a complete view.
My fazer has always been a bullet, an arrow on open roads and pretty smooth when entering corners. After 30.000 excellent kilometers, I decided to change fork springs and put the ones from Ohlins, that Yamaha sells here in my country.
I've put the springs with a 10th grade spring oil and I felt the change imediately....nice and smooth, but a bit scary in the beginning, cause of difference I must admit. But it actually was a lot better once I started making trips.
I was enjoying it, when suddenly, not a long time after, one day on a ride, without understanding what happened I was dropped out of a corner, not going fast, tasting the asphalt and for my luck I didn't fall off a cliff....I'm not so inexperienced, I ride motorcycles something like for 18 years and have also been to tracks, but anyway I blamed my self for it, human error I said...I got distracted probably, completely fixed the bike (only a roller and a steering bar) and even if a problem on my shoulder is still there, I started riding again, without serious problems.
The main thing now is, that after a trip I had this summer, bike + me and gf + loaded, I kinda like feel now that on cornering bike is not stable any more. I feel like the tail is making strange movements and the front is getting lifted up, in such a degree that I actually fear leaning any more because of feeling that I'm loosing traction. I tried to increase shock's level, made the absorber a bit harder, but still that feeling of smoothnes is long gone.
Now I'm fearing that this is some kind of serious problem with the bike, but still I haven't figured it out yet. Mecchanic says it's the shock absorber that's wasted, how can that be? friends say it's psychological after the accident, it could be, but why didn't it happen imediately after the accident?.....I still don't know what it is for sure....
Anyone had the same feeling, any ideas what could that might be? Currently, odometer at 42.500km and tires are new and in perfect condition.
Just looking for ideas....
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