R3 pulling to the left????

[hawg dawg]

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pulling left aint non of the for-mentioned problems---cartridge/fork misalignement.--bring bike in--w/ rider on release lower tree bolts.---then tighten up--will solve problem .--jm

 

[Torch]

Thanks to all the responses. I forwarded all of them to him.....

 

[149HP]

Glad I happened onto this thread!

Mine pulls left to a degree that if I lean as far as possible to the Right it still won't correct itself. I've ALWAY got to pull with my left arm and push with my right. I was led to believe it was the centrifugal force. Now I'm to believe it's a problem with alignment? John L. McKee.....I didn't follow your correction post....I'm a little slow. Could you explain that again?

 

[Jethro]

Mine pulls to the left also, did from day one.One day I'll have

to check into it. :shock:

 

[Ogre]

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No guarantee, but to me it means this:

With the rider on the bike, assumably in an upright balanced position, loosen the bolts on the triple tree. This will allow some passive seating of the forks, then retighten.

The triple tree is also know as the bottom yoke. The front forks go through the bottom yoke and the top yoke. There are an upper and lower bolt on each side of the bottom yoke, that clamps the fork tubes in place. The bottom yoke bolts are spec'd for tightening of 22 Nm.

I have no idea if this will work or not--call your dealer and ask him, if he says good idea, then try it.

 

[DCRocket]

Anyone find a resolution to this - when I take hands off at low speed and highway speed, there's a definite pull to the left. It's not road camber, tire pressure, wheel shape, cables are routed behind tripletree so not that either . . . is this just the nature of the beast?. . . any takers?

(BTW - bike rides fine with hands on the bars, even one hand - no wobble)

Thanks, DC

 

[Billythebiker]

What about riding position... :?

 

[Brian K]

mine also pulls to the left, has since day one.......... :?:

 

[CaptainCaeruleus]

Mine does not!!!! Tracks dead straight.... Goes back to what I said in some posts in the past... Some of our problems could be dealer setup related and not factory or design related...

 

[RiderRocketman]

Sometimes my girl runs straight, sometimes pulls left. Depends on the road and how fast I'm going. Even if a road looks flat and level doesn't mean it is. Our eyes are bad at judging those things.
I really wouldn't worry about this unless you're trying to be a stunter. Who else rides no-handed anyways?

I think you guys are most likely talking about a normal characteristic of the Rocket. It is a very heavy, asymmetrical bike so it is not perfectly balanced, though Triumph did pretty well to balance her. I think the tendency towards the left stems from more weight on that side - oil tank, transmission and drive train mostly.

I think I said earlier that the big crank gear could throw the bike left if you rev her good, but I was mistaken. The crank throws the bike right since it spins clockwise.

If there really is a problem, it'd most likely be fork or wheel imbalance. In that case you'll have uneven tire wear or wheel wobble. If you have normal tire wear and she runs straight without you needing to hold her firmly, then fergitaboutit.