Although your argument for paying a professional for mounting of tires is a good one, a good negotiator can (almost) always back the stonewall corporate type down. I have always mounted my own tires on my motorcycles, even my 550 Four. But, I would not recommend to all people who own motorcycles that one should or could mount their own tires. The difference between bicycles and motorcycles is a matter of greater size, weight, and preciseness of the tire; and in the case of wire spokes, the blasted tube. Never had to mount a tubeless on a bike rim, but have on car rims...
________________________________ From: jason scott <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 5:37:24 AM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: The shock's from e-bay were only $30 - they were an improvement compared to the old ones i mounted my own tires once. it wasn't to hard but if any thing goes wrong with the tire they will blame you for the malfunction. sometimes tires malfunction and i have family. a blowout on a motorcycle can be a once in a lifetime thing. highg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:38 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: The shock's from e-bay were only $30 - they were an improvement compared to the old ones I might try to mount my own tires on a bicycle but unless I had previously mounted motorcycle tires professionally, I would never try it myself. Just WAY too many ways for things to go wrong, IMHO. Dennis G. - Seattle - '85 & '86 CB700SC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 01-ZR2 Sent: 15 July, 2009 11:33 To: Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers! Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: The shock's from e-bay were only $30 - they were an improvement compared to the old ones It should be a Big Improvement and I could Imagine about being Squirrely. Hey,Good Luck. I was going to try to Mount my New Tires Myself this Weekend. Steve.................... On Jul 15, 11:38 am, [email protected] wrote: > I'm going to reseal my forks this weekend. That should greatly > improve the handling. One fork leaks much more than the other. I > don't get speed wobble's , but it's pretty squirrely on curve's Jul > 15, 2009 10:26:29 AM,[email protected]: > I have mine set at the Highest Setting too and still feels Soft. Mine > never bottomed out as you say yours do and I weigh 225 Lbs and even > after Disassembling them and replacing the Bushings and Stops they > still don't. I've also Replaced the Old Fork Springs with New ones by > Progressive that I got from Dennis Kirk and I use Bel-Ray 10 wt. Fork > Oil and I run 4 lbs. of Air Pressure in my Forks. All this work is a > Improvement and as I mentioned before this was a Big Complaint with > these Bikes. Sounds like you had no luck with the Shocks from E-Bay. > Look at it this way, the ones from JC Whitney are New and would have > to be an Improvement also. > Steve............................... > On Jul 15, 9:23 am,[email protected]: > > I bought them on e-bay because the original's were shot > > Jul 15, 2009 02:24:48 AM,[email protected]: > > Have you Adjusted your Shock Preload? The Suspension on the 550 > > Nighthawk wasn't the Great to begin with. The Factory Shocks on the > > 550 Nighthawk are VHD and have Five Preload Settings. Mine were not > > Leaking either, so I removed mine and Paid the Local Shop here $ > > 5.00 a Shock to Compress and Disassemble them for me. Then I Checked > > the Spring Length and found them to be in Spec according to my Shop > > Manual and I Ordered New Bushings and Bump Stops from Bike Bandit > > and Replaced them. I had them Reassembled and it seemed to help. I > > also found a low Mile Pair on E-Bay and did the same to have an > > extra Pair. Steve.................................... > > On Jul 14, 2:57 pm,[email protected]: > > > I was looking at JC Whitney, they have em' for $80 (not sure of > > > the quality) Someone told me to check the swing-arm bushing's? I > > > went to a salvage yard & all they had were some rusty 750 shocks > > > for $70 Any suggestion's folks? Thanks - > > > Bernie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
