Speedmaster Loose Stearing Head Nut

Discussion in 'America, Speedmaster & Rocket' started by brown mouse, Apr 10, 2019.

  1. brown mouse

    brown mouse Elite Member

    Sep 15, 2018
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    For a few weeks the frontend of my Speedmaster hasn't felt right, at first I thought I was imagining things but on today's ride I convinced myself that something really wasn't right and so decided to pop by the dealers. On the way there I was thinking what it could be, it felt like a steering head bearing problem but they couldn't be worn on a 7 month old bike could they? Then I thought to check the head nut and got quite a shock when I realised I could turn it by hand :eek: Needless to say I tightened it as best I could and continued riding gingerly to the dealers who tightened it properly.

    With also having bits falling off my exhausts I wonder what else is loose on the bike, will start checking fixings tomorrow I think.

    With the old oil leak and an intermittent immobiliser problem I still have, this makes 4 issue now on a new bike :(
     
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  2. dilligaf

    dilligaf Guest

    :( You’ve definitely been a bit unlucky mate
    I’ll be giving NUDGER a good check over before me and wor lass go to the Isle of Man :)
    When I first got this bike I did a thorough check before setting off for Welsh Wales for the GMU :)
    The only thing I found that concerned me was the rear foot peg bolts :(
    Went to give them a nip up and they just turned :confused: they weren’t loose as such but I wasn’t sure at the time if they went straight into the frame or not :confused:
    Turns out they go through the frame and are held with nuts on the inside :confused:
    Took one off and found that they were ordinary nuts with no kind of lock washers on :eek:
    Could easily of come undone over time :eek: so I replaced all four of them with nylock nuts :)
     
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