Wow this could have been a really bad day...
Wow my day went to shit...
Friend came up from Oakwood on his R1 to ride in the mountains with me this morning. He had no issues on the trip up. When he got here we tighten his chain just a little bit. We've done it many many times with no problems. We left my house and were heading to Helen when I noticed he wasn't behind me. I turned around real fast and hauled ass back and he was standing next to his bike on the side of the road. I stopped and asked what happened and he said his back tire locked up for a sec. and he almost went down.
We took a look at his rear tire and the bolts that hold the brake disk on were hitting the brake caliber. We thought it was the chain adjustment was loose so we readjusted it and test drove it and it was still hitting but I could see the entire wheel wabaling from side to side. He pulled over and I called a friend with a truck to pick the bike up.
We pulled it apart and this is what we found...
Right side bearing completely destroyed
dang its a nice bike
Parts wont be in till Tuesday so I let him ride my GSX-R home to Oakwood.
I'm just glad it didn't completely seize and he didn't go down.
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