I have a sportsman 800 x2 I bought new in April. It now has 12hr and 120mi, Now that it is somewhat broken in I opened it up a bit and found that the front end/steering/handlebars have a noticeable wobble when I hit about 50mph and up.
Is this normal? I hope not. Has anyone experienced this?

 

The front tires could be out of balance. I put some aftermarket wheels on my 700 and noticed a wobble at top speeds.

 

I have a wobble at about 50 mph as well. My wheels aren't balanced so I just attribute the wobble to that.

 

You guys should get your wheels balanced if you want to go fast. Mine are and it doesn't wobble.

 

I had the dealer upgrade the stock steel wheels standard on 07 x2, to 08 factory alum. wheels which comes standard with a larger tire. He told me he took the wheels/tires straight off of a 08 in stock. I assumed this would be a balanced setup. I posted a previous post talking about my rear tire wobbling slightly when cruising and looking back at the tire. I now wonder if I got some bogus wheel/tire setup when I told him that I wanted this upgrade to finish the sale. The wheels look great compared to the steel, but I should be able to do 50mph on a brand new $8000 machine without it feeling like a piece of sh*t

 

I hope they put longer studs on when they put the aluminum wheels on. If not you could end up stripping them and losing your wheels.

 

if they arent balanced they will have a high speed vibration or wobble. i ve had my 60+ w/out any issues.

 

Is there a way to tell if the wheel/tires have ben balanced. They wouldnt use the ugly crimp on weights like cars??

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: cscotter

Is there a way to tell if the wheel/tires have ben balanced. They wouldnt use the ugly crimp on weights like cars??</end quote></div>

Maybe. I remember having those when I had steel wheels.

Now I have self-adhesive stick-on weights that mount to the inside face of my alloy wheels. They're almost invisible since they aren't on the outside surface.

Now they make wheel weights out of zinc instead of lead because lead is so bad for the environment. The old lead wheel weights make excellent hard cast bullets and people who make their own bullets will ****** them up at every opportunity.

 

The allignment might have gotten out of wack. Your manual shows you how to check the allignment with a string.