wobbly frame?

[John Soliday]

I've got Murph's fork brace on mine and it seems to have helped stabilize
the front end under heavy braking noticeably. To the earlier question about
wandering while street dragracing, the brace won't help, you're light on the
front end under serious full on throttle.  I have other bikes for that kind
of activity but my GPZ will wobble the front end if I let go of the bars
while slowing into a light.  If I were going to really thrash this beast I'd
agree that a steering damper is what you need.  I probably have a couple in
my garage but you would have to fabricate your own mounts, which wouldn't be
for the faint of heart.

John (4K GPZ, but heck I have a CBR, Vrod, and Nova SS to drive as well)

-----Original Message-----
From: gpzlist-bounces at micapeak.com [mailto:gpzlist-bounces at micapeak.com] On
Behalf Of Drew Blanchard
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:03 PM
To: Alan Nicholls
Cc: Kawasaki GPZ1100 discussion
Subject: Re: wobbly frame?

I used to have this issue with some weekend racing at the track.  A steering
damper solved it.  Minor oscillations and vibrations at lower speed are
really magnified at high speed.  The damper took care of it, at the expense
of relatively heavy steering at low speed.

If anyone has experience with the fork brace, I'd love to hear about it.  Is
it really helpful?

Drew in VT

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Alan Nicholls <metrogtiguy at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, I went out cruising Woodward last night(Dream Cruise week!!!, (
> http://www.woodwarddreamcruise.com/ for you that don't know about the
> biggest custom/classic car cruise in the world), and I saw my neighbor
> parked.  I had always seen him around, but never met the guy.  He has a
> white fuel injected GSXR1000.  It's lowered, stretched, bored out, power
> commander III, headwork, etc.  It's built for drag racing.  We were
> cruising
> back up 8 mile at about 2am, and he wanted to play, so we did.  The GPZ
> gets
> BIG props!  It had enough power to walk away from the GSXR.  I really
> didn't
> think it would!  This bike has some TORQUE!  I'm sure the jet kit and
> Micron
> exhaust help :).  Oh, and I'm averaging 48mpg now with the mods, I was
only
> getting 39 before :D.  Anyways, when we reached a certain un-mentioned
> speed, my front end seemed to want to wander a little bit.  I'm assuming
> that means the forks were flexing, since they're so long on this bike.
>  There's a fork brace link on the gpzlist site, but, like most of the
> things
> on there, it's no longer available.  Anyone know of a fork brace that's
> still made or available for our bikes?
>
>