Alexander, please don't take this the wrong way, but how much street bike experience do you have? Is this your first bike?
I ask this because all bikes will move around underneath you for various reasons. Grooves in the road, wind, tire condition/tread/pressure, frame weakness, suspension geometry/settings, how fast your going, lean angles, bumps,etc. all play a part in the various wiggles you will experience while riding. Now older bikes with their steel frames, unbraced swingarms, skinny fork tubes, twin rear shocks, and giant front rims simply are more susceptible to this than modern bikes with their hydroformed frames, engines as stressed members, monoshocks, massive swingarms, and USD forks. What your experiencing could simply be how a 83 CB650SC Nighthawk rides. Personally I find this to be a part of a bikes character and just go with it. Where do you live? Maybe someone on the list is close enough to check out your bike, or will let you ride theirs to see if it feels the same. Also like someone else said earlier, you may be overthinking it. There have been times where I thought I felt something weird, or heard a noise, and then started to obsess over it. Ironically the times where I had a real problem like loosing the shift lever (Javier), lost master link on my chain, or a wheel lockup, I had no clue until the crap hit the fan! Lastly, if you have any doubts about missing suspension components go to: http://www.partsfish.com/oemparts/#/c/honda_motorcycle/parts and look up your bike and make sure everything is correct, and not just that you have all the parts but that they have been installed in the right locations. For example, I have bought new wheel spacers more than once because I was unsure if the ones I had were correct for the side of the axle they were on. Particularly wheel spacers look the same but often are not the same length and are position specific, though on your bike that isn't an issue because the speedo drive replaces the left spacer. BTW the only reason I listed a link to partsfish is that I have found them to be reasonably priced, and they get the OEM parts to me quicker than other places I've used in the past, just try and bulk order to keep the shipping costs low. On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:12 PM, 'Hawaii Sean' via Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers! <[email protected]> wrote: > When my ST1100 was new to me it came with a after market windshield. I > affectionately called it "the Kite" because it was like having a huge kite > on the front of my bike in cross winds. I was riding on the north coast on > the island of Hawaii. It's an area known for strong winds - which I didn't > know about until this ride. I lost track of how many times I thought I was > going to crash during one ride in particular. I talked to my brother > in-law about that stretch of highway, he's a truck driver. First he > laughed and then told me how his semi trailer gets blown around on that > highway. > > My point being: > 1 - full faring bikes do get pushed around by winds then bikes with > windshields. > 2 - Even without winds they will move around more than your nighthawk with > a windshield. Even though they are much heavier. > 3 - I think the extra weight exaggerates bumps and grooves on the highway > that make your bike move around. > > Question about your PC: Is the windshield stock or after market? If > after market is it bigger than stock? > > Sean > > > On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 2:20:53 AM UTC-10, EGrider wrote: > >> Funny timing for this thread. I finally put tags on the PC800, so I'm >> finding out what I bought. I find it wanders, or at least tilts back and >> forth, at Interstate speeds, and it's kind of unsettling. At first I >> wondered if it was highway grooves, but I just took the Magna down the same >> stretch of highway Sunday and that's not it. PC800 wanders with Dunlop >> K555s; Ol' Yeller does not with K505s. Same tread pattern. I was wondering >> if the wind was throwing the PC800 around with that fairing on it, but it >> would seem that the wind would throw a fork-mounted windshield around more >> than a frame-mounted fairing. Not sure where to go with this. >> >> Other than that, I'm finding the PC800 to be pretty useful. It's nice >> being able to throw a gallon gas can or a 6-pack in the trunk, and it's >> very nice not to have to remove a tank bag to gas up. Gas gauge, which >> actually works, is a novelty, too. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
