Thanks for the video, same problem on my 2020 Tracer. I've heard some people talk about the problems with these tires. Waited until service 8000 miles and changed 2 tires. Problems solved and running with much better quality tires. Happy with Michelin Road 5
Wow, big thanks for this video. I have had the exact same problem on my 2020 Tracer. I've got about the same milage as you, so, now I know that the original tires are not up to spec!! Big thanks GG!!!
I have the exact same issues as you. Same speed, same shimmy. My bike is a 2023 V-Strom 800DE. At 2,400 miles the rear tire was shot. I replaced both with new Shinko 804/805 knobbies (a tire I've run before on many different bikes). Unfortunately I also replaced the rear shock spring for a slightly stiffer spring at the same time. I now have the same handle bar shimmy as you. No amount of preload adjustment +/- has fixed it. The bike should have proper ride height, rider sag, etc. I have aluminum panniers but no top box. Increasing front tire pressure seemed to make the most difference. My problem must be related to: 1) the new tires or 2) incorrect geometry due to firmer rear shock spring. I may reinstall the OEM front tire today to see if the problem goes away. Thanks for the video.
It's nothing to worry about, keep both hands on the handlebars... In 1985 I bought a Yamaha FJ 1100, the same thing, a fast steering bike... Nothing on my Tracer yet (Metzeler roadtec (I think)). I'm guessing the grip between tire and tarmac varies a bit from side to side due to the tire pattern. But I had a Yamaha XS 500 -1978... I put on a steering damper....
Thanks for the comment. It happens on the Tiger as well and at similar speeds. I have not changed the tire to get rid of the issue, and have decided to live with it since I will be changing the tires for more off-road purposes when the time comes.
Thanks, today I noticed vibration on my bike at 50 mph coincidentally I had the box on which is rare, tomorrow I'll try it without the top box and take it from there
Hey, just started watching your videos. 👍 So I could write a book on this wobble. Been told in the past "Dont let go of the bars" I've had various bikes in the past do this to varying degrees. On the two bikes I installed tapered roller steering head bearings it cured it. on my 2015 FJ-09 I ran the front OEM Dunlop to bald, no wobble. Now a RS2 still no wobble. Might want to try higher front tire press. This also stops cupping. You can also tighten the head bearing a smidge. It's a delicate balance, not too tight where the bike hunts in a straight line, just below. Head bearings will notch in the straight ahead position (especially if loose) eventually and this will cause the wobble.
Good suggestions for those who still have this issue. It’s cured on my bike and what I did is as far as I’m prepared to go with pursuing a solution. Tire pressures were to spec, 36 psi. I still check from time to time and no issues with this tire which appears to be overcoming any design deficiencies.
@@seatime674 Doubt it. In my case it was not a balance problem as the wheel was balanced. Tire cured the wobble on my Tracer and sounds like it is working in reverse in your bike’s case.
@@GrumpyGoat Yes but I'm not sure it was balanced right the first time,, wouldn't the next course of action be to get it balanced again before replacing the tire? I would hate to replace it with another brand of tire it's brand new
When I bought my Yamaha Tracer 900GT, it had Dunlop tires on it. I did not feel confident on these tires. There was a handlebarshake. Taking curves did not feel good. My dealer told the story about the topbox. Shortly after a heavy wobble on the highway, I changed the tires with Bridgestone tires. ALL problems solved! No more Dunlop tires for me. Never ever. Op
@@noedle6669 Yes changing from the stock Dunlop D222 tires to the again Dunlop Roadsmart III tires cured the problem for me. I actually have had great luck/experience with both Michelin and Dunlop tires, the latter being more value for money with the Roadsmart III and IV, which I ride exclusively on my road bike. Good to hear the Bridgestone cited the problem for you. I have stock Bridgestone Battlax A41 tires on my Tiger and while they perform well and refuse to wear out, I do have the same handlebar wobble with the Tiger at pretty much the same speed. Am waiting it out this time, and avoiding that speed with hands off the bars.
Nice information. I have the wobble issue on my 2007 HD Electra Glide. Everything looks good but I really never thought about the tires because they are low mileage on them but the bike sits all winter cause of the extreme cold temps where I live. And the tires are usually low in air pressure in the spring. I’ll check the ties . Thanks
Happy to see it isn't just me with this problem. Gonna swap these garbage OEM tires as soon as possible. Are you having substantial buzzing in the grips? Mine are so bad my hands go numb after 20 minutes, grip puppies have helped but it's insanely annoying when coupled with the awful buffeting given off by the stock windscreen.
Thank you very much for your video and all the valuable informations. I'm the happy owner of a Tracer 9 ,2021 model and I' m ver yconcerned about the tickling noise from the cam chain. I' m almost 99% sure that the hidraulic camchain tensioner is to be blaim but I was not able to find a manual one (APE) to change it. The local Yamaha dealer/mentenance did not recognise that is a designing flow and I' stuck with that problem/noise. Does your model make the same noise? I would like to know from you because I saw a lot of clips on RUclips that reveale the same problem on this CP3 engine. Thank you in advance for your answer!
Looking at my manuals it does not appear that the cam tensioner is a maintenance item so unless there is a failure it would most likely not get their attention. Noises heard on a new bike tends to be downplayed unless the owner specifically states that they want it checked out and are willing to pay to investigate what might not be a problem. How much miles is there on the bike? Chances are that noise you are hearing is normal. I can’t say that I have heard any unusual clicking noise from the cam chain area on my 2019 with 5000 miles on it. Also my engine is different from the 2021 Tracer 9 GT and it may be that the tensioner is different also. My advice is to not change the cam chain tensioner unless it actually fails. Aftermarket parts are not necessarily better and for something like this I trust Yamaha engineers more than some third party design shop that might be parasitically looking to make money. At the very least pay to have the dealer check it out and if it has failed that repair would likely be under warranty.
I got some similar issues with my tiger explorer, get a wobble at approx. 60 km/h and I've had a few when passing semi trucks on the highway. Its not quite a tank slapper but this very old shimmering type feel from the front to the rear. Its happened about 6 times and I've always just calmly rode it out.
The handlebar wobble happens, when the front wheel get few mm lifted, hence why there are multiple causes that makes the bike wobble. Top box, ads weight on the back and lift the front wheel few mm. Wind shield in front and handguard makes downforce in front decent the front mm, ellimating wooble. If you gonna add weight at the back, you need to add something in the front also. Or make the suspension more stiff, so the bike dont tilt back to easily.
Thanks for the comment, but that was not the case with my bike. Since I have resolved the issue in my bike it has not returned despite all sorts of loading scenarios and different windshields.
2022 vstrom seems to bounce so the dealer said they checked and balanced both tires. No change. When going home I stood up while riding and I can tell from looking at the front of the fender and the tire at the same time that the tire is out of round. Factory tire.
Amazing that it would be out of round from the factory. There are so many variables that can cause vibrations in machinery, most have to do with imbalance. If you have a wheel balance you could pull off the wheel and double check the out of roundness quite easily. If the wheel is spoked it should be able to correct the shape. Good luck getting it fixed.
@@GrumpyGoat head barring, out of round rims or tires. Got the front tire off the ground and spun it and MR GRUMPY GOAT the FACTORY TIRE IS OUT OF ROUND. BRIDGESTONE BATTLAX ADVENTURE
I have a 2020 tracer 900gt, at 8000km (im from EU) i had a very noticeable wobble.. replaced the tires with the ones I like the most (Pirelli scorpion trail 2) and the wobble is 100% gone. So ye, the stock tires are just not good...
Thanks for the suggestion. The front axle would have to be pretty loose for wobble to happen like I described in the video. It wasn’t that in my case as the front axle was torqued exactly to spec. I have had many thousand miles since my fix (good tire) and no wobble.
Very cool video! Fyi, in mechanics you can use vibration and wobble / shake interchangeably. Low-frequency shakes or wobbles are still technically considered vibrations, by definition. But I understand your will to use concise and consistent language. Best regards!!
Loose Steering head bearings or out of round front tire would be my initial thoughts. Ironically this happened on my old Yamaha FJ600 and a tire change resolved this too.
Yeah the loose bearings was my initial thought too but I had no time to actually retighten it. I checked it by feeling for play and moving side to side and then brought it to the dealer for them to confirm.
@@XenolVlatriX If it is only under hard braking and if the vibration is indeed front-back, then I suspect the brakes are the issue. Could be the brakes are alternately applying and releasing braking force resulting in front-back vibrations. A thorough removal and inspection of the pads and also an inspection and cleaning of the discs would be my starting point. While you’re at it you should also check whether the discs are true (not warped).
I've taken a Tracer 9 GT for two rides (no luggage) and the bike could be provoked into a weave/wobble at... well I'd rather not specify the exact speed but higher than you found: ruclips.net/video/LDDR60dk2uA/видео.html In my pinned comment I listed another reviewer that found the bike could threaten to get into a weave also. The bike I rode had Bridgestone T32's and did not have many miles on the clock... P.S. feel a bit silly now that I've realised that your 900 GT is essentially a different model but still, strange that both of the older and newer gen. seem susceptible to this issue.
Thanks for the comment. While the 2 bikes are different, the fact that the Tracer 9 GT you tried and the Tracer 900 GT I have had the same issue suggests that their front end geometry is probably still very similar. Small perturbations such as that imparted from a tire at certain speeds could provoke the shaking as we experienced. So far the problem is still not there at the speeds I commute at, and even at higher speeds even with the top box on. There is no doubt in my mind that a top box would only exacerbate any tendency, whereas I suspect the panniers would have less of effect. Fingers crossed I never see this issue again. Nothing like my R1200RS which has never had a wobble, even beyond 140 with panniers and top box loaded.
@@TheAskme32 On my bike when I changed the tire to one that I know to be a good tire the wobble problems stopped at all speeds that I typically ride at (up to 100mph). It certainly does not wobble at 40 mph like it did with the D222 tires. I suspect that it is inherently the geometry, but having a tire with a rolling resonant frequency different than that which causes the wobble could mask the problem and present as a cure. Having a steering damper would also help.
Good luck fixing that without losing the top case. For me I have to have the top case since I commute and I refuse to use a back pack. So removing the top case is the same as getting rid of the bike. Luckily the change in front tire cutter my wobble. I have thousands of miles on the bike now and the issue has not returned. Top case is still on the bike.
That could be the wheel being out of balance. The wobble I refer to in this video tends to be a resonance issue at a certain frequency / speed of rotation. In your case yours is increasing with speed as would be the case with an out-of-balance wheel.
@@GrumpyGoat they wanted to put in rubber beads as balancers I think that’s the issue probably to many and I don’t think it works as good for high speed vehicle
@@aretools I have never used any sort of dynamic balancers so cannot really comment on their efficacy. I do know that wheel weights work so might be a good idea to remount and rebalance the wheel using conventional stick-on weights.
As you know, I switched the front tire and the problem went away so I can’t comment on whether making the suspension in the rear harder would have solved the problem. Now the whole bike is gone so I can’t even check that.
@@tomiljuks4211 Sorry to hear that. What tire did you change it to? What bike do you have? In my case I took off the Dunlop D222 tires that were fitted stock and put on Dunlop Roadsmart 3 tires with which I had good experience on my BMW and that solved the problem. In some cases a good tire will cure it, but in some cases the steering geometry makes the bike more susceptible to the wobble.
@@GrumpyGoat just went out and checked the speeds, its 40 to 45 and at 50 the wobble is gone.. so iv been doing lots of reading, it seems that it has something to do with the dunlop roadsmart 2 tires, as everything i found said it was because of the tread pattern of front tire.. what else could it be, its a brand new bike..
@@the404man Some motorcycles have front end geometry that are more susceptible to small perturbations due to tire tread. My Tiger right now for example also has the wobble at about 40. When I changed the front tire on the Tracer to the Road Smart III the wobble immediately went away, so the tread pattern on the previous tire was the thing that caused the wobble to start, and then hit a resonant frequency making the wobble worse. I guess you just have to get the right front tire tread pattern for your bike.
Thanks for the video, same problem on my 2020 Tracer. I've heard some people talk about the problems with these tires. Waited until service 8000 miles and changed 2 tires. Problems solved and running with much better quality tires. Happy with Michelin Road 5
Wow, big thanks for this video. I have had the exact same problem on my 2020 Tracer. I've got about the same milage as you, so, now I know that the original tires are not up to spec!! Big thanks GG!!!
I have the exact same issues as you. Same speed, same shimmy. My bike is a 2023 V-Strom 800DE. At 2,400 miles the rear tire was shot. I replaced both with new Shinko 804/805 knobbies (a tire I've run before on many different bikes). Unfortunately I also replaced the rear shock spring for a slightly stiffer spring at the same time. I now have the same handle bar shimmy as you.
No amount of preload adjustment +/- has fixed it. The bike should have proper ride height, rider sag, etc. I have aluminum panniers but no top box. Increasing front tire pressure seemed to make the most difference.
My problem must be related to: 1) the new tires or 2) incorrect geometry due to firmer rear shock spring. I may reinstall the OEM front tire today to see if the problem goes away.
Thanks for the video.
Thumbs up for this, I have had this question unanswered until now. 👍
Kairyu rider discussed this on the same bike and has lowered the front end by 5mm with success.
It's nothing to worry about, keep both hands on the handlebars...
In 1985 I bought a Yamaha FJ 1100, the same thing, a fast steering bike...
Nothing on my Tracer yet (Metzeler roadtec (I think)).
I'm guessing the grip between tire and tarmac varies a bit from side to side due to the tire pattern.
But I had a Yamaha XS 500 -1978...
I put on a steering damper....
Thanks for the comment. It happens on the Tiger as well and at similar speeds. I have not changed the tire to get rid of the issue, and have decided to live with it since I will be changing the tires for more off-road purposes when the time comes.
Thanks, today I noticed vibration on my bike at 50 mph coincidentally I had the box on which is rare, tomorrow I'll try it without the top box and take it from there
Hey, just started watching your videos. 👍
So I could write a book on this wobble. Been told in the past "Dont let go of the bars" I've had various bikes in the past do this to varying degrees. On the two bikes I installed tapered roller steering head bearings it cured it. on my 2015 FJ-09 I ran the front OEM Dunlop to bald, no wobble. Now a RS2 still no wobble. Might want to try higher front tire press. This also stops cupping. You can also tighten the head bearing a smidge. It's a delicate balance, not too tight where the bike hunts in a straight line, just below. Head bearings will notch in the straight ahead position (especially if loose) eventually and this will cause the wobble.
Good suggestions for those who still have this issue. It’s cured on my bike and what I did is as far as I’m prepared to go with pursuing a solution. Tire pressures were to spec, 36 psi. I still check from time to time and no issues with this tire which appears to be overcoming any design deficiencies.
@@GrumpyGoatOn my '11 Concours 14 with only 15k miles my wobble started after replacing with new tires, Could the front rim just be out of balance?
@@seatime674 Doubt it. In my case it was not a balance problem as the wheel was balanced. Tire cured the wobble on my Tracer and sounds like it is working in reverse in your bike’s case.
@@GrumpyGoat Yes but I'm not sure it was balanced right the first time,, wouldn't the next course of action be to get it balanced again before replacing the tire? I would hate to replace it with another brand of tire it's brand new
@@seatime674 Absolutely. You first need to balance the wheel before looking for a cause of wobble.
When I bought my Yamaha Tracer 900GT, it had Dunlop tires on it. I did not feel confident on these tires. There was a handlebarshake. Taking curves did not feel good. My dealer told the story about the topbox.
Shortly after a heavy wobble on the highway, I changed the tires with Bridgestone tires. ALL problems solved!
No more Dunlop tires for me. Never ever.
Op
@@noedle6669 Yes changing from the stock Dunlop D222 tires to the again Dunlop Roadsmart III tires cured the problem for me. I actually have had great luck/experience with both Michelin and Dunlop tires, the latter being more value for money with the Roadsmart III and IV, which I ride exclusively on my road bike. Good to hear the Bridgestone cited the problem for you. I have stock Bridgestone Battlax A41 tires on my Tiger and while they perform well and refuse to wear out, I do have the same handlebar wobble with the Tiger at pretty much the same speed. Am waiting it out this time, and avoiding that speed with hands off the bars.
Thanks a lot for the info! I have the same problem with my t9 2022 and now i know the answer. Ride safe!
Nice information. I have the wobble issue on my 2007 HD Electra Glide. Everything looks good but I really never thought about the tires because they are low mileage on them but the bike sits all winter cause of the extreme cold temps where I live. And the tires are usually low in air pressure in the spring. I’ll check the ties . Thanks
Happy to see it isn't just me with this problem. Gonna swap these garbage OEM tires as soon as possible.
Are you having substantial buzzing in the grips? Mine are so bad my hands go numb after 20 minutes, grip puppies have helped but it's insanely annoying when coupled with the awful buffeting given off by the stock windscreen.
No buzzing in the handgrips on my bike. The replacement tires are still doing the job with the wobble though.
Thank you very much for your video and all the valuable informations. I'm the happy owner of a Tracer 9 ,2021 model and I' m ver yconcerned about the tickling noise from the cam chain. I' m almost 99% sure that the hidraulic camchain tensioner is to be blaim but I was not able to find a manual one (APE) to change it. The local Yamaha dealer/mentenance did not recognise that is a designing flow and I' stuck with that problem/noise. Does your model make the same noise? I would like to know from you because I saw a lot of clips on RUclips that reveale the same problem on this CP3 engine. Thank you in advance for your answer!
Looking at my manuals it does not appear that the cam tensioner is a maintenance item so unless there is a failure it would most likely not get their attention. Noises heard on a new bike tends to be downplayed unless the owner specifically states that they want it checked out and are willing to pay to investigate what might not be a problem.
How much miles is there on the bike? Chances are that noise you are hearing is normal. I can’t say that I have heard any unusual clicking noise from the cam chain area on my 2019 with 5000 miles on it. Also my engine is different from the 2021 Tracer 9 GT and it may be that the tensioner is different also.
My advice is to not change the cam chain tensioner unless it actually fails. Aftermarket parts are not necessarily better and for something like this I trust Yamaha engineers more than some third party design shop that might be parasitically looking to make money. At the very least pay to have the dealer check it out and if it has failed that repair would likely be under warranty.
I got some similar issues with my tiger explorer, get a wobble at approx. 60 km/h and I've had a few when passing semi trucks on the highway. Its not quite a tank slapper but this very old shimmering type feel from the front to the rear. Its happened about 6 times and I've always just calmly rode it out.
The handlebar wobble happens, when the front wheel get few mm lifted, hence why there are multiple causes that makes the bike wobble. Top box, ads weight on the back and lift the front wheel few mm. Wind shield in front and handguard makes downforce in front decent the front mm, ellimating wooble. If you gonna add weight at the back, you need to add something in the front also. Or make the suspension more stiff, so the bike dont tilt back to easily.
Thanks for the comment, but that was not the case with my bike. Since I have resolved the issue in my bike it has not returned despite all sorts of loading scenarios and different windshields.
2022 vstrom seems to bounce so the dealer said they checked and balanced both tires. No change. When going home I stood up while riding and I can tell from looking at the front of the fender and the tire at the same time that the tire is out of round. Factory tire.
Amazing that it would be out of round from the factory. There are so many variables that can cause vibrations in machinery, most have to do with imbalance. If you have a wheel balance you could pull off the wheel and double check the out of roundness quite easily. If the wheel is spoked it should be able to correct the shape. Good luck getting it fixed.
@@GrumpyGoat head barring, out of round rims or tires. Got the front tire off the ground and spun it and MR GRUMPY GOAT the FACTORY TIRE IS OUT OF ROUND. BRIDGESTONE BATTLAX ADVENTURE
Sorry, I misread. Tire instead of wheel. No need to shout though. I was commiserating with you on your issue.
I have a 2020 tracer 900gt, at 8000km (im from EU) i had a very noticeable wobble.. replaced the tires with the ones I like the most (Pirelli scorpion trail 2) and the wobble is 100% gone. So ye, the stock tires are just not good...
Did it come back
@@tomiljuks4211 No the wobble never came back. It was tire related in my case
Double check your front axle torque spec. If not just right you will get insane wobble at acceleration. Happened on my FZ09
Thanks for the suggestion. The front axle would have to be pretty loose for wobble to happen like I described in the video. It wasn’t that in my case as the front axle was torqued exactly to spec. I have had many thousand miles since my fix (good tire) and no wobble.
Very cool video!
Fyi, in mechanics you can use vibration and wobble / shake interchangeably.
Low-frequency shakes or wobbles are still technically considered vibrations, by definition.
But I understand your will to use concise and consistent language.
Best regards!!
Exactly! Sounds like you are also an engineer. 🙂
@@GrumpyGoat
That is correct!
Thanks for your reply!
@stevenzao So that mean if my bike only wobble when going low speed, that normal right?
@@tranthanhduy3594 That is not what I said, buddy
If your bike wobbles at low speed you should probably check your tyres, wheels and suspension.
The wobble on my hornet started right after placing a top box! even if its empty!
Loose Steering head bearings or out of round front tire would be my initial thoughts. Ironically this happened on my old Yamaha FJ600 and a tire change resolved this too.
Yeah the loose bearings was my initial thought too but I had no time to actually retighten it. I checked it by feeling for play and moving side to side and then brought it to the dealer for them to confirm.
Under hard braking my handlebar shakes front and back. What could be the issue?
@@XenolVlatriX If it is only under hard braking and if the vibration is indeed front-back, then I suspect the brakes are the issue. Could be the brakes are alternately applying and releasing braking force resulting in front-back vibrations. A thorough removal and inspection of the pads and also an inspection and cleaning of the discs would be my starting point. While you’re at it you should also check whether the discs are true (not warped).
@@GrumpyGoat thank you so much will take a look at it
I'm having the EXACT issue with my 2016 vaquero and I just had new tires put on.
I've taken a Tracer 9 GT for two rides (no luggage) and the bike could be provoked into a weave/wobble at... well I'd rather not specify the exact speed but higher than you found: ruclips.net/video/LDDR60dk2uA/видео.html
In my pinned comment I listed another reviewer that found the bike could threaten to get into a weave also.
The bike I rode had Bridgestone T32's and did not have many miles on the clock...
P.S. feel a bit silly now that I've realised that your 900 GT is essentially a different model but still, strange that both of the older and newer gen. seem susceptible to this issue.
Thanks for the comment. While the 2 bikes are different, the fact that the Tracer 9 GT you tried and the Tracer 900 GT I have had the same issue suggests that their front end geometry is probably still very similar. Small perturbations such as that imparted from a tire at certain speeds could provoke the shaking as we experienced. So far the problem is still not there at the speeds I commute at, and even at higher speeds even with the top box on. There is no doubt in my mind that a top box would only exacerbate any tendency, whereas I suspect the panniers would have less of effect. Fingers crossed I never see this issue again. Nothing like my R1200RS which has never had a wobble, even beyond 140 with panniers and top box loaded.
I have tracer 9 gt two weeks old. With speeds over 165 km it starts the wobble. Are the tires the reason?
@@TheAskme32 On my bike when I changed the tire to one that I know to be a good tire the wobble problems stopped at all speeds that I typically ride at (up to 100mph). It certainly does not wobble at 40 mph like it did with the D222 tires. I suspect that it is inherently the geometry, but having a tire with a rolling resonant frequency different than that which causes the wobble could mask the problem and present as a cure. Having a steering damper would also help.
I have the exact situation, wobble caused by top case.
Good luck fixing that without losing the top case. For me I have to have the top case since I commute and I refuse to use a back pack. So removing the top case is the same as getting rid of the bike. Luckily the change in front tire cutter my wobble. I have thousands of miles on the bike now and the issue has not returned. Top case is still on the bike.
I have same problem with my fjr 1300
I just put new tires on and now I have a bad vibrations and it gets worse the faster I go.
That could be the wheel being out of balance. The wobble I refer to in this video tends to be a resonance issue at a certain frequency / speed of rotation. In your case yours is increasing with speed as would be the case with an out-of-balance wheel.
@@GrumpyGoat they wanted to put in rubber beads as balancers I think that’s the issue probably to many and I don’t think it works as good for high speed vehicle
@@aretools I have never used any sort of dynamic balancers so cannot really comment on their efficacy. I do know that wheel weights work so might be a good idea to remount and rebalance the wheel using conventional stick-on weights.
Make the rear suspension harder and the shaking will go away
As you know, I switched the front tire and the problem went away so I can’t comment on whether making the suspension in the rear harder would have solved the problem. Now the whole bike is gone so I can’t even check that.
I found a wobble in my bike then found out it was un even shock oil that caused it
Interesting but not surprising, I guess. Thanks for the comment - adds to the reasons for wobble.
Did the woble come back
Not at all. I rode the bike for thousands of miles after the tire change and there was no wobble when I traded the bike.
@@GrumpyGoat i changed the tire on my bike but soon it came back
@@tomiljuks4211 Sorry to hear that. What tire did you change it to? What bike do you have?
In my case I took off the Dunlop D222 tires that were fitted stock and put on Dunlop Roadsmart 3 tires with which I had good experience on my BMW and that solved the problem. In some cases a good tire will cure it, but in some cases the steering geometry makes the bike more susceptible to the wobble.
my bike shakes around 160 kmh to 200 kmh
I solved mine by just re balancing..
That works in some cases. Many causes of handlebars shake. Good you solved yours without much expense.
i noticed my new 2024 ninja 500 doing this today..
Good luck sorting it out.
@@GrumpyGoat just went out and checked the speeds, its 40 to 45 and at 50 the wobble is gone.. so iv been doing lots of reading, it seems that it has something to do with the dunlop roadsmart 2 tires, as everything i found said it was because of the tread pattern of front tire.. what else could it be, its a brand new bike..
@@the404man Some motorcycles have front end geometry that are more susceptible to small perturbations due to tire tread. My Tiger right now for example also has the wobble at about 40. When I changed the front tire on the Tracer to the Road Smart III the wobble immediately went away, so the tread pattern on the previous tire was the thing that caused the wobble to start, and then hit a resonant frequency making the wobble worse. I guess you just have to get the right front tire tread pattern for your bike.
Most people notice this when they're hanging on to the handlebars not letting them go. Lol..... But whatever
...planet Claire
I don’t care for wobble at all, hands on or off the bars.