bloooody suzuki parts

Originally Posted by svdemon

No i'm a Mechanical Engineer so i spend my days making fairy cakes...

Really!?

Absolutely heres a link to the recipe - http://www.ivillage.co.uk/food/exper...673444,00.html

For those that are interested in the topic it strikes me as strange that "Suzuki" have only just come out with this. Has anyone heard of this before?

My K4 pointy had 28.5K miles and a rigid swinging arm.... (left to right, not up and down)

Interesting, i would love some clarification on this matter. Next time i'm in Saltire i'll mention it to them.

[DarrenSV650S]

Wonder if it's just sv's

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

Wonder if it's just sv's

nope blandit, v-strop and a few others but i cant remember, i got to try a few bikes when i was there and all of them were the same including one of the mechanics sv650's and as i said a brand new out the crate blandit..

My money is on poor machining of the swingarm/frame/pivot/spacers. They can't put slack in the bearings themselves or they would deteriorate rapidly.

It just strikes me as odd that its taken 6 years for this to come to light.

[DarrenSV650S]

Just checked mine on the abba stand. When I push on the left side of the swingarm there is a very quiet dull popping sound as it moves a little. When I stop pushing, it pops back. But if I push on the right side nothing happens

So there is a tiny bit of play, but not a lot

[punyXpress]

Originally Posted by svdemon

My money is on poor machining of the swingarm/frame/pivot/spacers. They can't put slack in the bearings themselves or they would deteriorate rapidly.

It just strikes me as odd that its taken 6 years for this to come to light.

Nah! ' grease ' is the Japanese word for ' slack ' so they put plenty in when they make the bikes!

[northwind]

My uninformed opinion is that it sounds like a complete load of s***. A wee bit of controlled flex- not play- in a bike frame is a good thing, since your suspension only works vertically- once leaned over, a lateral flex in the arm or frame can act like a big leafspring suspension. (remember RC51s racing with frame bolts missing, hacksawed slots in the frame, etc- TOO stiff, the racers sabotaged them to get back some flex).

But, rattly swingarms doesn't really sound like handling benefit, it'd be uncontrolled and I can't see any way it wouldn't wear the parts faster, bearings like constant loads. I've never noticed it on the early pointies I've worked on, though to be fair I wasn't looking for it. My curvy certainly has none.

As for greasing the bearings... Yeah, do it. I did. But it's a pain in the nuts to do, lots of dismantling, so people don't bother. Strangely, if you buy a replacement swingarm it comes greased up like a scottish dinner, it's only the complete bikes that have no grease. Kwak are the same of course.