Slight Front End Wobble

no wobble here on either Rune.

BUTTTTTT....i will admit (reluctantly...i don't like to give those few "naysayers" much ammo to fuel their banter about the Rune having such problems 8) ) that i have had a couple of SMALL strange things going on with my Rune....that i am now happy to say i have discovered the cause of and fixed one....and will fix the other eventually.

STRANGE THING #1: after changing out my bars from forward to rear bars, every time i would turn the bars hard....or lift the bike off the kick stand....put any kind of stress on the bars, there would be this loud crack. i figured it was just some bolt/pinch bolt lose or something. Finally, last weekend, after riding Sherry's Rune and realizing of course it didn't do that, i went to the trouble to start tightening every bolt i could think might cause that around the handle bars/front of the bike. i finally discovered the bolts on the handlebar clamp assembly were QUITE lose. tightened them, crack went away :lol: (ok....that wasn't that strange....but it was annoying!)

STRANGE THING #2: this one is strange. Again, ever since they changed out my bars....AND HAD TO CHANGE THE FRONT BRAKE HOSE...which meant they had to bleed the brakes, i have been hearing this weird pulsating sound out of the front of the bike when i brake hard with the front brakes. granted, i have to be braking hard to make it happen...but i hear it fairly often (i almost exclusively use the front brake....very little back braking). Sherry's bike doesn't do it...and mine didn't before the bar/brake hose change...so of course i figured it had to do with changing/bleeding the brakes when they did it. I finally took it to dealer, and they have actually heard this same thing on some other bikes. Said what i am hearing is the actual fluid under pressure making that noise in the brake lines itself. They said when i bring the bike in to change fluids out, they can take care of it then. or if it bothers me, i can bleed lines and try to fix it now. I have noticed with time, it has gotten better...happens less...isn't as loud as what it was right after they changed the bars/brake line. Brakes work fine, so i'm not worried. And the explanation made since to me as an Engineer, so i'll just let them take care of it at the 12k fluid change. i'm guessing some air in the line perhaps?

Otherwise, the bike is flawless. No wobbles....no noise from front shocks....no blue smoke. One happy customer here (on both bikes).