Cracks and lines in the road

[Robbeh]

Quick question:

Is it normal for a motorbike to follow the cracks / lines / contours in the road. Like I don't mean completely stuck to them but as in follow the grove which can sometimes feel uneasy.

Just wondering if every bike does this or if it's a problem with my bike even though it past MOT recently.

Hard question to explain so hopefully it's written in a way you guys can comprehend.

Rob.

[Wonko The Sane]

yeh, it's physics, the defect in the road allows the wheels to sit in it and causes it to follow the defect a bit like a tram wheel in tram tracks.

Easy to deal with, a gentle pressure on one or other end of the handle bars and you'll move out of it.
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[Mudshark]

or wrong tyre pressures, I know when I need to put some air in before the sensors decide it's too low, when the bike starts to "track" a little.
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[MarkJ]

I find it happens more the older/squarer the tyres are. New tyres normally sort it out but that's an expensive fix.

[stinkwheel]

Some bikes/tyres do it worse than others but they all do it to an extent.
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[MCN]

They tell you to look for and avoid road defects and 'overbanding' (where they use molten tarmacadam to fill joints or other small gaps in tarmac.)

I'm sure I'm due for a tug from the old bill for steering around Britain's roads.
Even on the straight sections.
I was in Germany via Holland last year and was appalled at how good their roads are.
I noticed a symptom of road defects there. You see a 'defect' on the road ahead and brace for it's effect on your bike but when you pass it it's like riding over a shadow.
Germany must have spent the last fifty years filling in all the pot holes the RAF made between 39 and 45.

[stinkwheel]

[Robbeh]

Cheers for advice. At least I know that it isn't a faulty bike. Must be the roads where I live as they don't even tarmac then anymore. They make us bed them in ourselves

[MCN]

[Taught2BCauti...]

There's a road near me (Old Hill By-Pass) that has a track running diagonally across the lane, so it's impossible to avoid.

I always try to cross it in the same place, so I know what to expect, but one time when it felt different, I checked my tyres and found they needed topping up.

Some of the roads around here are really crap, and the 'tracking' affects cars too.
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[andyscooter]

there is one I use regularly that has one right down the line you would take the corner on

I have complained but as I was the only one they ignored it

its worse for scooters by the way
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[C1REX]

My bike follow lines very badly when the pressure in the front tyre isn't perfect.
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[JonWal]

My first journey after buying a bike. There was a band of tar all along the centre of the road that had sunk in the heat. The tyre kept getting drawn into it so I had to position the bike 3/4 of the way across my side of the road.

Last night I went for a spin and the council had just spread chippings all along the road. It felt like riding on marbles. It felt like the bike would come out from underneath me at any time. I just prayed I didnt have to use the brakes.
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[Vincent]

'Worse bits for skinny tyres are when they dig up the road for re-surfacing....I got caught in such ruts on my SS50 once and my handlebars snapped in the middle
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[Robbeh]

Alot of you guys saying about front tire psi should be perfect. Whats perfect for FZS 600 because I'm reading different psi's from different people.

[Vincent]

[Mudshark]