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sabrje
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Post Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:15 pm

For a while now my touring has had a bit of vibration from the rear, particularly over 65mph. :( It seemed to appear after a sprint up the M40.... I've had a quick looked and couldn't see anything obvious and decided it must be subframe bushes or something similar...

Anyhow, having not had time to do anything about it, I went off on a trip to Ireland and while cruising down the A48 towards fishguard everything got suddenly worse and I thought I was bound to miss the ferry!

Turns out I'd had a blow-out on the offside rear which more or less shreaded the tyre - closer inspection revealed a serious bulge on the inner wall and it must have been that which was causing all my problems. Since I've had the spare on there's no vibration at all. :D

The moral of the story - check the simple things first.... :oops:

Incidentally, I replaced the tyre whilst in Ireland at this place that looked like a shed and I only had one done cause I thought it was bound to be expensive. I should have bought a whole set as it was 85 euro for a Goodyear Ventura - my local tyre shop wants the same in pounds!!