Anyone experience steering wobble when decelerating from about 40 or 50 mph? If I remove one hand from bar to rest or do anything the front wheel begins to wobble violently. If I accelerate, apply any steering load, left or right it stops right away. any clues as to cause or remedy? No wobble on acceleration or at high speeds ?????????

Let the Dealer check and readjust the Steearing Head Bearing. While doing so, tell him to repack the Bearing. He needs to check the Bearing Race for Pitting anyway.

Best would be, you stay near the Bike while the Mech is working. This ensures that he actually does what needs to be done. Yammi is somewhat known to be very thrifty in use of Grease.

Sounds like either you have a loose steering nut or a bad tire (or both). Take it to back your dealer

I used to have exactly the same behavior with my Gen1 Vmax and it turned out to be the front tire... Have it checked would be my advice.

Good luck and keep us posted!

Cheerz

*- DiMMaX out -*

I replaced the tire first thing, Head bearing seems fine, but I guess Ill have to pull it and check for grease, then re-adjust. Thanks for the input and time

I know what you mean about watching them while they work, I got the rear brakes done and the mechanic failed to replace the bold attaching the strut to the caliper, took an act of congress to get them to order the right bold and replace it. Few dealers will allow you to watch while service is being performed, I made watching a condition of using this dealer again and was told to find another service location, I did, happily........

Oh, I'm sorry, i didn't realize that you've been talking about a 1Gen.

This could be caused by a Number of Things. Tire, Tire mounted not good on the Rim, Tire Pressure, Steering Head Bearings, Adjustment thereof, binding Rotor, different Oil Levels in fork Legs, Swing Arm Bearings, rear Tire ... just to name the obvious Things, a awful Lot of Things.

It's you're steering head. It is loose and needs to be tightened.

What year is your max and how many miles does it have on it.

It may need new steering head bearings as well.

When I go my Raider the head nut was real loose. I just tightned it down. There machines and people put them together. I go over my ride with a tq wrench every couple months.

Make sure the weight did not come off that rim might be out of balance