"Click" felt in bars - not steering head bearings

[mszilves]

Hey guys,

I've been trying to diagnose a "click" I can feel in the bars when the front brakes are applied hard. I've been thinking it's the steering head bearings for the longest time. But since I did those last year, and torqued them properly according to the FSM, I was stumped. Kept thinking maybe the All Balls replacements were bad? I must have inspected, adjusted and re-adjusted the steering head bearings 3-4 times, and each time the same result.

So today, I went to a trusted dealer to get some second opinions. They took the bike for a ride and did some tests, and said that the steering head bearings were fine. They said that the "click" that I was feeling was from the brake rotors/calipers moving when the brakes were applied. Since we have semi-floating rotors, combined with the calipers possibly moving, they said that was resulting in the "click".

Has anyone else experienced this? The dealer said not to worry as this is normal, but I have not really felt this on other bikes. What do you guys think?

[tommyj27]

sounds like what i've been trying the figure out on my bike, my click is definitely the pads rattling around in their cradles; I don't know if that's a bad thing or not.

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[mszilves]

sounds like what i've been trying the figure out on my bike, my click is definitely the pads rattling around in their cradles; I don't know if that's a bad thing or not.

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=704

Can you actually feel it in the handlebars? Are you still running the stock calipers? I have the R6 calipers.

[yamaha_george]

sounds like what i've been trying the figure out on my bike, my click is definitely the pads rattling around in their cradles; I don't know if that's a bad thing or not.

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=704

Can you actually feel it in the handlebars? Are you still running the stock calipers? I have the R6 calipers.

Hi,
that is very odd after doing a stoppie yesterday I had that same "feeling" & checked the head bearings. All in order no stiffness on side to side swing with front wheel of the ground. I did notice however that my rotors do now have a slight "jangle" to them that I had not noticed when I span the front wheel to see if the wheel bearings were iffy.

Quite likely that the very abrupt stop I did freed up the crap in the rotors / R6 calipers.(not in the habit of breaking real hard (tend to use engine braking to cruise to a stop rather than stand the bike on its nose. Especially as I know the front forks are WAY too soft & bottom out.

Any one reading this have the fork spring dimensions ?
Thanks

[tommyj27]

sounds like what i've been trying the figure out on my bike, my click is definitely the pads rattling around in their cradles; I don't know if that's a bad thing or not.

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=704

Can you actually feel it in the handlebars? Are you still running the stock calipers? I have the R6 calipers.

I can feel it ever so slightly at the handbars. R6 calipers here too.