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People handle vibration differently but rubbing your wife’s back red is in excess . Drawing on past experience with other bikes, check your engine mount and down tube bolts and retorque them.
Never heard of cracked frames on these bikes being a problem but a hair line crack will produce this vibration also.
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Hmmmm, I will try some type of rubber washer, see if that will help. It's going to be a couple of weeks before it'll be nice enough for her to get on back and see.
I wish I could think of something where it just stretches over the backrest for when she is on back, something I could slip on and off. 'Cause I don't think a Tourpak is in my near future!
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Loafer,
Something like that is what I'd like to think up. I can think of things, but can't sew. Well, I can do buttons..........
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For another great idea: See my post on the preferred foot pegs thread.
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Love the Fuller Brush, great concept!!
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Right side frame tube, there's two bolts just below top of raditaor above bake Reservoir and two bolts below swingarm.
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MoBandy, I will. My wife can't bear it for more than a couple miles. I'm sure people are different and might be more sensitive than others, but there are too many passengers having the same problems.
I'm not sure that the rubber washers would work, I'm going to try and think of some type of pull over contraption, something I'm going to have to make like Loafer said. Maybe some type of gel pad sewn into something that I can just slip over the backrest and a strap that goes underneath between the bars and velcro's to the other side just to make sure it doesn't come off when she is moving around or getting on and off.
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Now your thinking.
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The Missus could hardly stand the directly attached Cobra backrest. I got a new backrest and the problem abated. I've not owned a 1600, so I have not fought this monster. I think you have got to isolate the backrest from the fender struts or isolate the pad of the backrest from the backrest frame.
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I recently took off my stock backrest pad and wrapped some thin black neoprene around the bar, making sure the cloth covered side of the neoprene was on the inside to allow it to swivel still. Then I took the metal backplate and covered the whole backside of it in the same neoprene and put it all back together. This helped isolate it somewhat. The vibration's not totally gone but much better. Hope this helps
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Reviving an old post here I know but hopes it might help someone else out. For me the was the fix. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SekkGezmO...814_142929.jpg
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This is a fix... https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SekkGezmO...814_142929.jpg
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