Hey all! Thanks for all the advice so far. When I see Fender wobble my brain goes more to a telecaster with a Bigsby... not my bike! Here are responses to questions and comments.
At one point my rear wheel went out of true. I trued it and found one spoke was totally slack. I though that would fix it, but no. I will go back and check spoke tension. Just because it's straight doesn't mean there's not a tension problem. I've had strap and clamp on handlebar bags. It has wobbled with those. I have done very few rides with nothing on the bike. I will remove fenders and racks and all bags and go do some cornering; see if I can make the problem happen with fewer variables. I've checked headset. Will re-check skewers and wheel tightness. Also, will check hub bearings for play. I don't have a lot of fender experience. These SKS fenders came used with the bike. I've watched videos and I'm pretty handy mechanically. The struts have flex in them that is not very damped. I can whack the fender laterally with my hand and it will oscillate for about 1-2seconds. It's like a fast pendulum swaying from the mounting points. I just went to the garage to check, and there's a crack in the rear fender on the left lower strut. Maybe this is it. It can flex to hit the tire, and it might be bouncing against the wheel as I turn. Maybe it's been a broken fender all along. It's not supposed to rain for a while. Off with the fenders soon for testing! Cheers! Ben On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 9:07:30 AM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: > Shaking fenders won't make your bike mishandle in corners, something else > is causing that. As others suggested, check tire pressure, wheel bearing > adjustment, fork bearing adjustment, or a wagging rear load (and even a > wagging rear load has to be pretty heavy to upset cornering). > > As to SKS fenders, I've used probably a dozen pairs, and while they're > not as stiff as good, well installed metal ones, and while they do vibrate > visibly over bumps, none of mine, from 35s to 65s, have "wagged." Check the > mounting bolts, particularly under fork crown. > > Good luck, and let us know the cause when you find it. > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 6:14 PM Ben Adrian <bunny...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey all! >> >> I have SKS Fenders on my Ram. I live in L.A., so I rarely need them. >> Still, there are puddles of gross water, damp mornings, and smatterings of >> rain, so I really appreciate them when I need them and I leave them on. >> Now, they do move a bit when riding. I'll look down and see them moving >> from bumps and wind. I know they're not the best fenders and I'm okay with >> that. >> >> There's something else that happens on this bike. When cornering, I >> sometimes feel it getting a little noodle-y. There is a wobble, and not all >> the time. It never feel dangerous, but it is a bit disheartening and weird. >> I'm wondering of the lateral wobble of the fenders is also giving a wobble >> to the cornering sometimes. Perhaps it's something else, and the wiggling >> fenders are becoming the scapegoat. >> >> So, anyone else have anything like this happen? My instinct is to just >> take them off and see if it happens again. I guess the result would be the >> same either way; it's the old fenders so I buy nicer fenders because I like >> having them, or it is the fenders, I fix it with the fenders off and I buy >> nicer fenders because I like having them. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c7336f91-fd49-42af-bd08-65a1d633dbc9n%40googlegroups.com.
