Passenger backrest vibration

[kenk]

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.

[Bull Durham]

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!

[Loafer]

Originally Posted by Bull Durham

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!

My wife had a issue with the sissy bar pad on my XS650. I bought a toilet seat cover (black) and some soft foam from a store that sold material for making clothes and drapes and such. My wife cut and sewed the cover and foam to fit over the pad. She used the pieces to keep the elastic still around the edges. When she was going for a ride, I would stretch it over. And when she wasn't I just kept it in a bag. ;)

[Bull Durham]

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..........

[Loafer]

Originally Posted by Bull Durham

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..........

You must know some one with a sewing machine. Ask around.
For another great idea:
See my post on the preferred foot pegs thread.

[Bull Durham]

Love the Fuller Brush, great concept!!

[scott2007nomad]

Originally Posted by KenK

. . . check your engine mount and down tube bolts and retorque them.

What/where would I look for the "down tube bolts"?

[kenk]

Right side frame tube, there's two bolts just below top of raditaor above bake Reservoir and two bolts below swingarm.

[mobandy78]

Originally Posted by Bull Durham

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!

My fiance complains of the same problem... says it's almost unbearable for her. I put the rubber washers at each connection point and it didn't seem to make a difference. I may need to try some thicker washers or double up the ones I have. If you find something to use over the backrest, let me know. I'll need to try it too.

[Bull Durham]

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.

[Loafer]

Now your thinking.

[ndbigfish]

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.

[04bagger]

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

[Sooperarthur]

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

[Sooperarthur]

This is a fix... https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SekkGezmO...814_142929.jpg