Hi all, i recently had my bars changed on my Softail standard, it had the small Nightrain/Drag bars with about 6" riser set up. Never liked the look so ive just changed them over to some Western bars-From Scorpion in QLD-with the riser from a new Softail Slim so they are nice and low. the thing looks awesome however i got the chance to get out on the highway last week and noticed a wobble, fisrt when behind a car with horse float, then behind a small hatch back, both at about 100kph. I never had this issue before the bar change and it seems fine when theres nothing in front of me! the steering does feel very light with the new bars, i just thought because of the extra leverage being much wider it would do that. It also had a new front tyre put on, thought it may be a balance thing but that would mean it would wabble all the time?? Anyway hoping somewone out there may have some ideas!

Cheers

I don't think it's mechanical....it's the air behind the vehicle in front of you creating the wobble...

Try sitting behind a semi the wobble is worse

thanks for the feedback, I didn't think it would be mechanical, sounds like a trade off for the wide bar look!

Replace the rubber bushes for polyurethane a lot more solid less movement which can happen when the
Rubber ones are old or wider / taller bars fitted as you have done

hi perthhog,  pretty sure they put them in when they did the change. cheers

squaring off ya tyre's maybe

Also - Do a Fall Away Test. You might find the steering is too loose.

My thoughts as well

It's just the Air coming of the other cars, because your changed the bars you probably sitting up a little straighter so the air is hitting you diffrently now

Would hate to state the obvious

A few guys have said check your Neck Bearing , it's not the problem but the tell tail sign that your Bearing need replacing is you will feel a vibration in the bars when you stop and come to a stand still with the front brake on , the vibration will not be there when you let the brake off