Dreamdemon
Well-Known Member
Hi all,
first of all I read a lot in this very nice forum and really appreciate the useful information and the nice atmosphere. Now that I ran into some strange problem I registered finally to ask you for your expertise.
I have a 2006 Fz1 which had no crash, I bought the bike last October and put 6500 miles on it and noticed that the front tire is wearing much faster on its right side than on its left (orientation when sitting on the bike). I suspected the rear wheel alignment but a check revealed that it is correctly aligned. When I changed the front tire I checked that everything sits correct but there is nothing to adjust there (or did I miss something?).
Finally I checked that the front forks are correctly aligned and straight and both is the case. Now I am really puzzled. Could the suspension cause such a problem? The last front tire only lasted 4k miles (PP rear 4.7k) and the difference in tread depth was 0mm right and 3mm left. In my 16 years of motorcycling I never encountered such a problem, the bike seems to go a bit to the left as well and usually that has something to do with the wheel alignment or with fork alignment but both are ok on the bike. Any idea what else I can check?
All the best
-T
first of all I read a lot in this very nice forum and really appreciate the useful information and the nice atmosphere. Now that I ran into some strange problem I registered finally to ask you for your expertise.
I have a 2006 Fz1 which had no crash, I bought the bike last October and put 6500 miles on it and noticed that the front tire is wearing much faster on its right side than on its left (orientation when sitting on the bike). I suspected the rear wheel alignment but a check revealed that it is correctly aligned. When I changed the front tire I checked that everything sits correct but there is nothing to adjust there (or did I miss something?).
Finally I checked that the front forks are correctly aligned and straight and both is the case. Now I am really puzzled. Could the suspension cause such a problem? The last front tire only lasted 4k miles (PP rear 4.7k) and the difference in tread depth was 0mm right and 3mm left. In my 16 years of motorcycling I never encountered such a problem, the bike seems to go a bit to the left as well and usually that has something to do with the wheel alignment or with fork alignment but both are ok on the bike. Any idea what else I can check?
All the best
-T