Just started feeling a funny vibration in the handlebars tonight. Pulled over and pulled a rock out of the tread, and thought problem solved. Got back on the highway and it still felt like I was riding on gravel. A couple minutes later, I thought I heard something bumping around somewhere in the front end. Fairing maybe? Fender? Pulled over again. Everything looked OK and nothing felt loose. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Each time I got back on the highway, I drove a little slower than the time before. Kept listening to something occasionally rattle around the front end. Twice it felt and sounded like something got kicked up inside the fender and bounced its way out as I was taking an easy left turn.
Took me an hour to ride about 12 miles and I got so worried it was gonna lock up and throw me, I left it in a shopping center parking lot a mile from home.
2005 C10 with 66K miles.
Tires look fine with 6K miles on front Metzler RoadTec Z8 and rear Shinko 777. (Very conservative rider, so I'm easy on brakes and tires.)
New EBC Sintered brake pads rear at 56K and front at 60K. (Previous pads were installed at 42K front and rear)
Don’t feel any wobble in the front wheel.
Fender seems solid. Fender extender feels solid. Rotors feel smooth. Checked the fairing. Checked the tip over bars. Checked the trailer hitch. Checked the forks. Checked the mufflers.
Haven’t found anything loose.
I keep seeing posts about wheel bearings going bad, but does that explain the “something got kicked up inside the fender and bounced its way out”? Do I dare ride it that last mile home?
Took me an hour to ride about 12 miles and I got so worried it was gonna lock up and throw me, I left it in a shopping center parking lot a mile from home.
2005 C10 with 66K miles.
Tires look fine with 6K miles on front Metzler RoadTec Z8 and rear Shinko 777. (Very conservative rider, so I'm easy on brakes and tires.)
New EBC Sintered brake pads rear at 56K and front at 60K. (Previous pads were installed at 42K front and rear)
Don’t feel any wobble in the front wheel.
Fender seems solid. Fender extender feels solid. Rotors feel smooth. Checked the fairing. Checked the tip over bars. Checked the trailer hitch. Checked the forks. Checked the mufflers.
Haven’t found anything loose.
I keep seeing posts about wheel bearings going bad, but does that explain the “something got kicked up inside the fender and bounced its way out”? Do I dare ride it that last mile home?