Handling complaints*

[TwoWheels]

Handling complaints
Hi there,
My name is Roy Richards and I am the Florida director for the V-max owners association. I was checking out your page as I am considering buying one of Maxes close cousins, the Venture as my touring bike. I saw several complaints about "wobble" in the Q&A section and thought I would pass along a little trick we call the 'Furbur Fix" in V-max circles. It was named this after the guy who popularized it among us V-max fanatics and I understand it works wonders on ventures too.
Maxes are very prone to wobble and headshake at the worst times and one of the major causes can be traced to the little rubber washer between the two special nuts under the top triple clamp. The washer does not allow an accurate adjustment of the steering bearing tension and prevents the botttom nut from being held tightly.
In order to "fix" it remove the top triple clamp,the top nut, and the rubber washer. Adjust the lower nut a little on the tight side and then reinstall the 2nd nut torquing it down tightly onto the bottom nut. Place the rubber washer on top of the two nuts (not in between them as it was before) and reinstall the top triple clamp. Now that lower nut will not lose its adjustment and the triple trees cannot vibrate slightly within the thread tolerance. Go for a ride and you will be amazed at the difference this little change will make in the feel of your bike.
Just thought I would pass it along. ..........Roy Richards Florida VMOA director [e-mail]

I found this & thought it might be handy.

[winghunter]

That is more than interesting, since the V Max and the Ventures have exactly the same problems.

[Nacho]

Thanks, Noel.

Actually, Roy is right. I already have heard about this at the Venturers forum.

I haven't done it yet because there is an easy way to tight the nut without dismounting anything at the bike. But I do have in mind to do that if I ever have to take everything out of my front Venture (shield, fairing, handelbars and everything). That would be a great chance to do that modification or even to replace that rubbe nut with a different one. Actually I thing somebody said at the Venturers that we can simply eliminate that nut without doing anything else.

Thanks for sharing this info.

Best regards,

Nacho.