WHAT THE FUCK did i just do!?

[Tuffers]

I was riding home this morning on my Honda nxr when about half way home doing 30 there was a REALLY loud bang from what sounded like the back wheel and it felt just like i had a flat tire. When i got home i looked at the tire and it was fully inflated even though the handling of the bike suggested otherwise. So i pushed on the wheel from side to side and the rear shock is squeaking a bit and looks like it has oil around the bottom of it.

Have i just destroyed my shock doing low speed on a flat road with no bumps? Or is it a wheel bearing? please help as i need the bike to get to work on Tuesday :/

[mysterious_rider]

Well it's pretty obvious if a wheel bearing has gone. Grab the wheel and shake it. Any movement from side to side play and it's gone. It might have been the shock though. Although it just sounds like the shock was leaking, to be fair if they shocks damping system had gone, you wouldn't of noticed it on a slow road. The shock itself would have collapsed maybe if it was anything serious.

[DrDonnyBrago]

When you pull the rear wheel side to side, is the movement in the wheel itself, the shock or the swingarm? Oil pumping out he shock and movement in the shock does rather suggest it has shit itself.

What bike is it? On most bikes it is probably cheaper to buy a new used shock than have yours repaired if it has died. You could just be buying another knackered shock of course.



More to the point, why didn't you pull over and check your tyre/shock and what the bang was before riding the other half of your journey home?

[Teflon-Mike]

Get the back end in the air; check the spokes.
Check the shock linkage. Believe they have plastic bushes in there, could be one broke down, which would explain teh crack, though the 'crack' is what makes me say check your spokes.
Shock?
Shouldn't be leaking oil; get it swapped.

OH, forgot. Crack & spokes. & Honda trailie wheels.

Spokes can snap, and you often cant see where, usually they go at the bend before they go through the bub, and can take some waggling to find a cracked one, but sound is like a pistol shot.

Other place they can go is at the nipple; they can strip out ofthe threads through fretting them away, so you get sudden release of tension making pistol crack sound when they go, but still inside nipple, they just feel a bit loose and you wont see a break.

BUT on Honda trailie rims, & seem to recall it being a known problem on Dommies & Transalps, the 'rims' give and the nipple pulls through the nipple hole, and I ALSO think that its a funny double section, so they may only pull through the inner layer of metal, and leave teh nipple wedged inside the hollow of the two 'skins'.
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[Tuffers]

Yeah the sound was alot like a gunshot i nearly shit myself and fell off due to jumping so bad haha. i didnt pull over cause i was knackered and just wanted to get home. Plus i honestly thought my tyre had blown due to it feeling like it had a flat tyre.

The shock is wet with oil, i have checked the spokes and they all seem to have tension in them, when i try and wobble the wheel the shock does make a creaking sound now though and it didnt last night. Also there is a slight knock that i can feel through the swing arm when i do it.

The shock is only 4 months old as it was replaced with an aftermarket one worth £600 by the dealer i bought it off as the stock one had snapped by the previous owner.

[mmulvaney95]

[_Iain_]

Sorry

[mysterious_rider]

That's easily sorted by just whipping the wheel of and having a gander. Should be obvious if a bearing has gone or not. Espesh if its shat itself inside the hub.