Front end/ Suspension shops around the GTA

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someonesomelane

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Good day fellow riders!

With the sunny days on the horizon, its time to bring out the motorcycle from the storage. That being said, i would appreciate any leads on shops that take up suspension work. I ride a 2024 Kawasaki ZX-4R.

A background to the issue at hand: Laid her down on the left side at low speed mid season last year. Resulted in a bent left clip on and some cosmetic damage to the left fairings (atleast thats what i thought). The bike still tracked straight, no leaks, no bent forks, no fluid loss.

Eventually noticed a low speed wobble while leaning, turning and under braking couple of weeks later. Swapped the tires, fixed the damaged clipon and did all the troubleshooting i could, but the wobble was not rectified. Since the season ended, its up on the stands.

Took me a while to figure out it could be the steering head bearings. I bought the oem bearings from F9. Any suggestions or leads on shops that would help with the swap or help with the diagnosis and rectification are highly appreciated!!
 
someonesomelane said:
Good day fellow riders!

With the sunny days on the horizon, its time to bring out the motorcycle from the storage. That being said, i would appreciate any leads on shops that take up suspension work. I ride a 2024 Kawasaki ZX-4R.

A background to the issue at hand: Laid her down on the left side at low speed mid season last year. Resulted in a bent left clip on and some cosmetic damage to the left fairings (atleast thats what i thought). The bike still tracked straight, no leaks, no bent forks, no fluid loss.

Eventually noticed a low speed wobble while leaning, turning and under braking couple of weeks later. Swapped the tires, fixed the damaged clipon and did all the troubleshooting i could, but the wobble was not rectified. Since the season ended, its up on the stands.

Took me a while to figure out it could be the steering head bearings. I bought the oem bearings from F9. Any suggestions or leads on shops that would help with the swap or help with the diagnosis and rectification are highly appreciated!!
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Make some time to head near Peterborough to see John at accelerated tech. He setup my zx4r.
 
I’ve also ridden up there for when they opened up and worked out of the back shop while they did my front and rear. It was nice to feel the difference riding in and riding out. Plus I could also take it for a test spin and they made some secondary adjustments and then I was on my way.

My last job for them, I took the parts off my bike and dropped them off. Then they serviced the parts and I picked them up and installed them later at home.

They are worth the extra effort to get there and back.
 
someonesomelane said:
Good day fellow riders!

With the sunny days on the horizon, its time to bring out the motorcycle from the storage. That being said, i would appreciate any leads on shops that take up suspension work. I ride a 2024 Kawasaki ZX-4R.

A background to the issue at hand: Laid her down on the left side at low speed mid season last year. Resulted in a bent left clip on and some cosmetic damage to the left fairings (atleast thats what i thought). The bike still tracked straight, no leaks, no bent forks, no fluid loss.

Eventually noticed a low speed wobble while leaning, turning and under braking couple of weeks later. Swapped the tires, fixed the damaged clipon and did all the troubleshooting i could, but the wobble was not rectified. Since the season ended, its up on the stands.

Took me a while to figure out it could be the steering head bearings. I bought the oem bearings from F9. Any suggestions or leads on shops that would help with the swap or help with the diagnosis and rectification are highly appreciated!!
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Where are you located?

Also lots of local shops that can do that work for you.
 
How's the stiction in the forks? Could be twisted in the triples as well.
Accelerated is good, but may be a bit far. I've been to John a few times and usually wait with my bike as he's good at teaching what he's doing so I can learn something while paying for the work.
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
How's the stiction in the forks? Could be twisted in the triples as well.
Accelerated is good, but may be a bit far. I've been to John a few times and usually wait with my bike as he's good at teaching what he's doing so I can learn something while paying for the work.
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Years ago I read an article in the late, great Cycle magazine. Have you tried loosening all the pinch bolts on the front end? Letting the front end "relax" if you will, and re-tightening them. Any chance the rear wheel is drastically out of alignment too? Factory chain adjustment marks are sometimes not the most accurate, skewing the wheel left/right.
 
Glenn/RZ500 said:
Years ago I read an article in the late, great Cycle magazine. Have you tried loosening all the pinch bolts on the front end? Letting the front end "relax" if you will, and re-tightening them. Any chance the rear wheel is drastically out of alignment too? Factory chain adjustment marks are sometimes not the most accurate, skewing the wheel left/right.
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This.
Long ago had a Vmax that would go into a tank slapper if i took my hands off the bars at around 60 kph.
The cure that would work for a couple of thousand k was to loosen the fork pinch bolts and fork brace bolts and bounce the suspension a couple of times then retorque from the bottom up.
Thinking that it had something to do with the forks getting bound up through use.
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