I ride my V-Force in Mississippi and Louisiana through alot of woods which have exposed roots and ruts. The V-Force seems to have alot of problems with bump steer. In fact, one bump caused the handle bar to jerk to the left so bad, I ended up pushing the throttle and doing a cork screw flip. Not fun.

A friend of mine who has a V-Force was having the same problem and he installed a steering dampner, but is still having the same problem. In fact, a group of us went riding yesterday on trails with alot of roots, a Raptor and Predator did fine, but the V-Force (even with steering dampner) was still jerking, especially when a root was jutting out on the trail.

I know we can't be the only people with this problem. Is anyone else having trouble? If so, how have you fixed it.

Thanks

 

SWB 162,

I noticed the same issue in the GNCCs that I raced on my VForce. After riding the VForce, my Rincon seems to be much more forgining in the woods. Where did your buddy get his steering damper?

-Jim

 

Mine seems to do the same thing. It also is very unstable at high speeds (60+). I was going to check the toe but haven't had a chance yet.

 

He put a Denton steering dampner on the bike. Have you tried anything to resolve the problem?

 

Same issue here. First day riding it I hit a tree root and jerked the handleebars to the left causing me to hit a tree and bend the left tie-rod. I was only going about 10 mph but it caught me off guard. I also don't care much for the thumb throttle. It seems to stick out pretty far which makes it harder to hold on to the grip. These are the only complaints I have so far though.

 

you should check the wheel alignment. this might help. Nyroc's web site tells how to do it.

 

My first local HS was awful on the V. The track was very very rocky with lots of roots. To make things worse it was very tight. Some places almost stop to get through. The V wore me out. The bump steer is very bad. I have tried every shock position, tire pressure combo to no better results. New shocks and a stabilizer may be the only help.

 

I had good results by simply letting air out of the tires...try running the front tires with only 3.5 to 4 lps of pressure, and run about 4.5 to 5 in the back tires...this helped alot with bump steer, because the tires soak up the bigger bumps and ruts, and it also helped with the high speed drift problem....these tires are pretty tuff and have no problem running with low tire pressure....try it and see what you think...it may not be as good as some of the lighter quads...but you dont have a light quad...I also noticed I ride the V-force standing up most of the time becuase its so bumpy at low speeds...that also seemed to help with the steering...I dont know why.

 

This bump-steer problem still upsets me because the brochure for the V-Force states:
"In addition the single-spar frame design brings the steering tie-rod pivot points closer to to the A-arm pivot plate. This virtually eliminates bump-steer. . ."

I think they have a problem and I don't know if there is a good answer. Guess I'll try the lower air-pressure

 

Have any of you rode a scrammy?....If so is the steering prob worse than the scrammy cause im really lookin at gettin a new vforce...especially the new lavared one.