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LesterPiglet:
I agree with Florence over tapers. I still can't get my front end feeling the way it did with the standard bearings. Years ago I remember being warned off them as it was easy to set them too tight/loose.

z1100r:
 The main cause of this steering shake to violent tank slap is your head bearings. I had it on the Direblade and I've had it on my z1100r. On both bikes it didn't do it unless I let go of the bars but releasing pressure on the bars would set it off and it would become very violent if you didn't grab them again. Both head races were replaced with tapers. Tapers are a doddle to set but you seem to have to keep setting them on a regular basis.

Weaving is usually rear end, knackered shocks/swing arm bushes/wheel bearings/flat or bald tyre.

 IMO Handling problems are never usually just one thing, its just that the first thing sets other things off in some sort of chain reaction.



It does seem weird that it took 30+ years on stock ball bearings before the headstocks started wearing out and playing up, yet I thought I could do better and replaced with taper roller....why did I do that...madness. 







 

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