Wallow cured
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02-08-2008 | 10:30 PM
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#62
02-08-2008 | 11:07 PM
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From: Naples FL / Pine TWP PA
RE: Wallow cured
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Gunrunner,
I've never run the Dragon's Tail, so I can't be sure what the road is like. However, the key phrase that you used is "tightest curves east of the mississippi". In the canyons out here in Southern California, I never have a wallowing problem in tight curves. It's the mid to hi-speed sweepers that induce the wallowing. 20 or 30mph hairpins never give me a problem with respect to the wallowing. It's always the faster corners, especially those with bumps in the middle of them. My Harleys have always wallowed BIG TIME when I push hard in those sweepers.
I'd like to try the Dragon's Tail sometime - sounds like a nice ride.
Doug
ORIGINAL: gunrunner
Ive run Tha Dragon's tail two up at a good speed and never felt this, and these are the tightest curves east of the mississppi, I guess if you want a sport bike ride it might do something, otherwise Its like alot of products out there, made to address things that dont need addressing.
Ive run Tha Dragon's tail two up at a good speed and never felt this, and these are the tightest curves east of the mississppi, I guess if you want a sport bike ride it might do something, otherwise Its like alot of products out there, made to address things that dont need addressing.
I've never run the Dragon's Tail, so I can't be sure what the road is like. However, the key phrase that you used is "tightest curves east of the mississippi". In the canyons out here in Southern California, I never have a wallowing problem in tight curves. It's the mid to hi-speed sweepers that induce the wallowing. 20 or 30mph hairpins never give me a problem with respect to the wallowing. It's always the faster corners, especially those with bumps in the middle of them. My Harleys have always wallowed BIG TIME when I push hard in those sweepers.
I'd like to try the Dragon's Tail sometime - sounds like a nice ride.
Doug
#63
02-09-2008 | 10:04 PM
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From: St George, UT
RE: Wallow cured
I didn't get any wallow until I had about 6000 miles on the rear tire. By then the center of the tread had sort of squared off. Could it be the wallow is caused by reduced tire patch in hard cornering? A bit of sidewall squirm? A little tire slide? Everyone agrees the wallow comes at higher speeds, when centrifugal forces would be much higher to the outside of a curve. This would load up the tire's contact patch causing some flexing of the side wall and the tread. I would call this a wallow (also?).
I get some wallow running at high speeds in the Virgin River Gorge, at 75-80 in curves posted for 60-65mph. It is most prevalent when the pavement heaves a bit. On the back roads where the curves are tighter, I get little or no wallow unless,again, the pavement heaves.
I just live with it. I'm not threatened.
I get some wallow running at high speeds in the Virgin River Gorge, at 75-80 in curves posted for 60-65mph. It is most prevalent when the pavement heaves a bit. On the back roads where the curves are tighter, I get little or no wallow unless,again, the pavement heaves.
I just live with it. I'm not threatened.
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