squeeling tyres on GSX750F

'ullo ... took the "F" up the oxly to gingers yesterday and noticed that the
tyres were squealing as i was heading round the corners... they are a
touring tyre, not a sport/sticky and i'll be pissing them off as soon as i
get some spare dosh.

I'm finding it bloody hard to get around the bends quickly. im laying it
down fairly low but drifting wide if i push too hard. couple of times it
started to step out. I checked the pressures, they seem fine at around 38.
Is this too much/not enough?

In all probability is 95% me having lost confidence, and 5% bike tyre
combination

any thoughts from the collective brain power that is aus.moto
cheers
Emu
EL250 -> XJ600 -> BMWF650 -> GSX750F

 

What brand ?

Mick

 

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Baileyana wrote in message

Suzuki.

 

What brand ?

Hahahahahaha very good Clem !

On a not so funny note, i have the same bike as you Alex , mine wears Dunlop
d205's (OEM) and the only time i could not get the bike to handle correctly
was when i adjusted the front suspension. I always leave the front damping
(the only adjustable part on the top of the fork legs) at the hardest of the
four clicks available. The ride is a little harsher than i would like but
the bike handles like a pig if i make it softer.
My rear suspension is set as follows
- quarter of a turn back from hard on the compression adjustment (under the
seat)
- position 2 or 3 on the rebound (bottom of the rear shock)
- preload on the top of the spring is wound down about one cm
Also , my tyres are 33 front and 36 rear as per the book
Hope that helps ,you can email me if you need to know more , but watch for
the spam trap.

Graham
GSX750F

 

Ooops , forget to say i weigh 80kg (blush) and it was set up that way from
new for me by Wayne Clarke from Stay Upright (im a spamming bitch now !!) as
he thought those settings would suit me.
YMMV

Graham
GSX750F

 

cheer graham ... couldn't tell you offhand what the tyres are - I think they
are a generic noname tourer (well not a popular brand or id remember it)


will try those setting out and see how we go... From memory i think the guy
i bought it from had the front at the softest and the back about 1/2

Cheers
Al

 

Doing the front first would be my choice , it made all the handling
difference to me and in your first post the drifting wide part is what mine
was doing till i clicked it back up.
The rest you could try bit by bit later.

Graham
GSX750F

 

Sure it's the tyres and not, for example, the wheel bearings?

-----sharks

 

Its the pegs and toecaps for sure , those suzys love to lay down

 

....or the distant sounds of the vineyard?

Hammo

 

Yeah that sounds like a plan, if they're on 38 psi (is that a decent
quality gauge or a servo one - servo one's can be dodgy) then it's prob
just crap tyres.

Get a copy of twist of the wrist 2 off the superbike school website or
your local bookshop, a couple of points out of it:

- You'll corner quicker if you tip it over quicker - the less time it
takes to go from upright to leant over the sooner you're actually
cornering and hence the less lean you need for a given corner, and/or
you can corner faster, and/or you can tip in later which means you can
brake later

- Relax - many people limit their bikes by not letting them corner properly

- Try not to "point focus" - try and get your vision opened up to see as
much as possible - humans when endangered focus in the danger, if you're
allowing yourself to focus too narrowly the corner will seem far faster
than if you sit back a bike and give it some context

JL
(oh and hanging off allows you to not have lean the bike so far if that
feels OK)

 

Hmmm time to go to bed I think - that would be "focus ON the danger" and
"sit back a BIT and give it some context"

 

Yeah ... tyres were definitely making the squealing noise... same as the car
in the carpark, or car going round corner to fast noise... I've never heard
it before on a bike.

Emu

 

they are Bridgestone SportTourers (so much for being a noname brand huh! got
that wrong didnt I *grin*)
Emu

 

Tyre spinning on the rim ?

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

Got some stonking Shiraz up there. You'll have to drop
past and get your Moike Torches too.

-----sharks

 

Install rimlocks off the ol traily

 

The poor grapes are downtrodden...