Weave caused by tyres?

[jenky9r]

I have recently put the Conti Trail Attacks, onto my 6 month old DL1000, which have superb levels of grip for cornering, wet or dry, but I've noticed an increased tendancy to weave at 90mph+ (In germany obviously!) that I didn't notice when it was on the OE tyres.
has anyone else noticed this with the conti's or any other tyre for that matter?????
 :wtf:

[KLV-Rider]

I run the same tyre, mine gets to over 115 before the usual slow weave, might want to check they were balanced properly.

[2112]

My  '06 1000 came with Coniti trail attacks on and it felt horrible, very wobbly and slow to turn I binned them ASAP. A set of Avon Distanzia's have sorted the problem out, much better rate of turn and far more stable, very grippy too. I had three sets on my Varadero and rate them highly. Bry  

[jenky9r]

Cheers for that. I'll try the balancing first and if that doesn't work I'll just take it easy till they wear out, as I'm too tight to change them before! Shame really as I had the road attacks on my last bike, zx9r, and they were really good. So I had high hopes for the trail attacks.  

[DESERTRAIDER]

been getting some funny wear on front tyres over the last few weeks, right out of profile ,off the bigger bikes like BMW gts and fjr1300 been touring could be down to carrying fully loaded panniers putting more stress on the front tyre under brakeing etc

[wilscott1]

IMO weave on the Strom is mainly down to the front being under-loaded and/or too high.
Used to happen to me with too much weight on at speed - ie loaded with luggage and/or pillion.

Solution after cranking up rear preload to max was initially to drop the yokes 5mm down the fork legs - this did help but much reduced ground clearance to the point where I was quite regularly grinding pegs.

Now I've bought a Hagon shock with remote preload adjuster.  This not only gets the back of the bike up to where, IMO, it should be but also provides a whole lot better damping.

Just tested it all on a 3 day Scotland tour (875 miles of twisty undulating roads) and the results are superb.

BTW - running with BT020 tyres F&R.

[jonH]

The bike manual suggests not topping 80mph (iirc) when sporting luggage - plenty of reports of the top box causing weave at 3-figure speeds

[Jamie]

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[Lee]

Hello think this was in another post the weave is caused by either carrying a pillion or having ;uggage on the bike this causeing uneven flow of air round the bike and rider (yes I'm talking technical now) I've played around with the tensioners/dampers on the front forks and that seemed to of helped with the weave at double figure speeds but anythink over a ton with luggage or a pillion forget about it, its just Going to happen no matter what combination you have so just don't go over a ton!!