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Looking for ideas re headshake please

Postby greenman43 » Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:36 pm

Hi all,

Having a bit of fun with my 10 at PI last week, and finally decided to try and tame the handling a little.

At the moment, when I change up gears down the main straight at full noise, it does a little headshake each time. I haven't consciously changed geometry (although the frame is new so possibly running a little more rear ride height. Pretty sure it was doing it before the frame change.

I have a set of adjustable offset triple clamps, and was thinking about swapping over the offsets to get some more trail. Does anyone have any other thoughts as to why it might be doing this ?

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Brian
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Re: Looking for ideas re headshake please

Postby Wattie » Mon Nov 23, 2015 6:15 pm

My stocker used to do that a bit, mainly on the good gear changes where the front popped a little.

I later found a bolt missing from may damper mount that let it move. Thought id fixed it but it was stikl there unless i wound the damper up hard. But then its harder to steer
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Re: Looking for ideas re headshake please

Postby greenman43 » Mon Nov 23, 2015 6:40 pm

Thanks Wattie, maybe its a weight transfer thing under power. The BSB chassis has a longer swingarm to put more weight on the front, thinking I might invest in a longer chain to take advantage of it.

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