| Author | Message | ||
     Steveford |
I was talking to a fellow today at a bike shop and recently he's picked up two new Harlees which have experienced wheel bearing failures - I think it was one front wheel, one rear wheel. Failures were at 13,000 and 17,000 miles and the bearings are from (you guessed it) Taiwan. Posted as I sit here waiting for new wheel bearings for my Ulysses. | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
ok, sometimes things fail prematurely. Make a million of something and youre bound to have some lemons. | ||
| Alfau |
The bike is only as good as the weakest link in the parts used and how they were assembled. In Buells case, take a wild guess which part will fail next. The quality of the materials used is pathetic. Thank God they didn't make airplanes. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Thank goodness mine was a special edition that didn't come with every part welded to every other part from the factory. I'm fortunate that on my bike, I can replace parts that break. If I had a dollar for every bearing I have replaced on Japanese motorcycles, I'd have, well, a stack of dollars. And right now, I am NOT a fan of UJM carb banks. Geesh. | ||
| 46champ |
I am convinced there is no fix for the number of wheel bearing failures we have, except if we figure out a way to install tapered roller bearings. Then we would be using something that was made to be a wheel bearing. | ||
| Steveford |
With around a quarter million miles on Italian motorcycles I never replaced a wheel bearing or one on a tube frame Buell. The XBs were just too narrow, Harley's problem is they went with the lowest bidder. The son of a guy at work finally bought his dream Harley this year (a 2016 Road Load type bike) and after around 10 things went wrong with it in the course of 3 months it's now up for sale. He went, "Dad, you were right"! | ||
| Jolly |
I had the front wheel bearings fail... catastrophically.. a few weeks ago. Going down the highway at just a bit over 75mph on my 2009 Street Glide. Apparently there was a year group of very cheap low quality bearings. This was a very close call as the entire bearing shelled and kicked out pieces. |
