I visited my Parents in Fochville this weekend, and as my wife finishes work at 2 daily she and the children left early on Friday to miss the traffic. I came from Bethlehem and needed to ride, so I went home, parked the bakkie and left for Fochies on the GS.
Having changed the ball joint on the para lever and the top bearing in the triple clamp, I though it would be a good change to test the new ones and see if there is any difference.
Came this morning, I got up and took to the gravel surrounding the Fochville, Parys Vredefort area. All went well, the back of the GS snaked a little on the gravel, but it was handleble.
So when I got to Scandanaviedrift, just before the Vaalriver into the Vrystaat, lady luck decided to boul me a curve ball. I saw this little Hotel, Rapid Waters, and was checking out the nice scenery, and just started accelerating, when under the shadows of a Wilgeboom, a fricken 20cm deep pothole awaited me. When I entered it, I saw here is Sh!t. Couldn't lift the 230kg dry weight 1100GS so it took the "rand" of the pothole at a 90 degree angle.
I immediately stopped and the front was flat already. The right side of my front rim was oval. I took out the plug spanner and tried to hit it straight, but it was like farting into a sandstorm, nothing!!.
So I decided to turn around and slowly drive to the Hotel, maybe I could get the Handyman to borrow me his hammer to mo@r the rim back so the tyre can seal , so I could get air in and go and cry at home.
I haven't even stopped in the courtyard when a oke approached me. I told him my dillema and within 10 sec's I had a leka 5pound hammer to try and persuade the rim back to some of its original size.
WE started talking and it came out that he owns a 1400 V Twin Suzuki Intruder, and his wife a 800 Suzuki Marauder, we had some common ground; I wasn't stuck without help. I took of the wheel, persuaded it, and then he asked me about his 1400 that went wild over 140km/h. He had just bought it from a dealer in Bronkies who replaced the front rim and bearings on the triple clamp, but non the less it was still doing so over 140km/h.
He asked me to take it for a ride, maybe I could see what was wrong. Me not being a mechanic an all, I though I would just return his favor and try it, and never having the chance to ride a cruiser before it was a double whammy.
At first I had to get used to the unusual riding position, and foot pegs so far forward, but then it went like a dream. I discovered that the front wheel was too hard and deflated it, and the problem was solved. I told him I would replace the fork oil with maybe a 10W or 15W, and off I was.
And all of this while you were in the Hogsback!!!
ps: Any one maybe who can help with a 19" ABS front wheel for a 1100GS?
Having changed the ball joint on the para lever and the top bearing in the triple clamp, I though it would be a good change to test the new ones and see if there is any difference.
Came this morning, I got up and took to the gravel surrounding the Fochville, Parys Vredefort area. All went well, the back of the GS snaked a little on the gravel, but it was handleble.
So when I got to Scandanaviedrift, just before the Vaalriver into the Vrystaat, lady luck decided to boul me a curve ball. I saw this little Hotel, Rapid Waters, and was checking out the nice scenery, and just started accelerating, when under the shadows of a Wilgeboom, a fricken 20cm deep pothole awaited me. When I entered it, I saw here is Sh!t. Couldn't lift the 230kg dry weight 1100GS so it took the "rand" of the pothole at a 90 degree angle.
I immediately stopped and the front was flat already. The right side of my front rim was oval. I took out the plug spanner and tried to hit it straight, but it was like farting into a sandstorm, nothing!!.
So I decided to turn around and slowly drive to the Hotel, maybe I could get the Handyman to borrow me his hammer to mo@r the rim back so the tyre can seal , so I could get air in and go and cry at home.
I haven't even stopped in the courtyard when a oke approached me. I told him my dillema and within 10 sec's I had a leka 5pound hammer to try and persuade the rim back to some of its original size.
WE started talking and it came out that he owns a 1400 V Twin Suzuki Intruder, and his wife a 800 Suzuki Marauder, we had some common ground; I wasn't stuck without help. I took of the wheel, persuaded it, and then he asked me about his 1400 that went wild over 140km/h. He had just bought it from a dealer in Bronkies who replaced the front rim and bearings on the triple clamp, but non the less it was still doing so over 140km/h.
He asked me to take it for a ride, maybe I could see what was wrong. Me not being a mechanic an all, I though I would just return his favor and try it, and never having the chance to ride a cruiser before it was a double whammy.
At first I had to get used to the unusual riding position, and foot pegs so far forward, but then it went like a dream. I discovered that the front wheel was too hard and deflated it, and the problem was solved. I told him I would replace the fork oil with maybe a 10W or 15W, and off I was.
And all of this while you were in the Hogsback!!!
ps: Any one maybe who can help with a 19" ABS front wheel for a 1100GS?
