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Steveford
Posted on Friday, September 16, 2016 - 01:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

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.
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Hybridmomentspass
Posted on Friday, September 16, 2016 - 07:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

ok, sometimes things fail prematurely.
Make a million of something and youre bound to have some lemons.
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Alfau
Posted on Sunday, October 16, 2016 - 07:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

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.
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Reepicheep
Posted on Monday, October 17, 2016 - 08:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)


quote:

The bike is only as good as the weakest link in the parts used and how they were assembled.




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.
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46champ
Posted on Monday, October 17, 2016 - 10:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

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.
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Steveford
Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 06:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

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"!
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Jolly
Posted on Sunday, November 06, 2016 - 08:19 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

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.
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