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I'm going to have to agree with the shorter, but better life. When new, and properly set up, the steering head feels like it's melted butter (budda')
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Originally Posted by hfd1 tuner
Head shake is a direct issue of poor geometry or rider input at wrong time. seen loose head bearings cause a shimmy but speed wobbles are mostly geometry issues. How many times have you seen a bike eject rider only to snap dead straight and keep rolling. Bikes are self correcting...now old gp 500 bikes them be a whole different ballgame...
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I will agree, but what one man calls "Poor geometry" another calls "aggressive hyper sport geometry". The quicker one can go from vertical to knee down, the longer you can stay on the throttle, later you can brake, and quicker you can turn.
Jet fighters dance on the aerodynamicaly unstable line. The aircraft wants to turn all the time, the pilot just tell it when, and which direction. The same can be said for high performance bikes. It wants to fall over all the time, you just tell it when and which way. I've seen at least one vid where pilot comes off the bike, and it continues the turn. Most bikes will stand up and go straight when your hands come off the bars. A well set up GP bike is literally balanced on the razors edge.