Squealing Sound

[Royal Star]

Commuting to work today about 65 mph with cruise control on and felt a slight hesitation and then a very loud squeal. Pulled over to the shoulder to check things out. Did not see anything abnormal. Got rolling again and when I started passing 40 MPH the sound came back again and the entire bike seemed to be very rough.

 

Called a tow truck and had the bike dropped off at the shop. The shop could not find anything wrong. Anyone else ever experience this?

 

I suspect the front brakes were binding or a bad bearing. Shop said the brakes and bearings were good.

 

John in San Diego

[Reddog170]

I had an old Honda that made a squealing sound at higher speeds, turned out to be in the shaft drive. Do not know if that will help out here but it is a thought. Shaun

[Flyinfool]

Did the shop take it for a ride to over 40mph?

[FreezyRider]

My last RSV did this.....it would come and go. Couldn't figure out what it was, but it sounded like it was coming from the area of my left foot. One night coming home from supper it started squealing really loud, and my wife said she thought it was coming from the back, not from the front....even though it still sounded to me like it was from my front left.

Well, I put it up on my lift, started it up and began running through the gears. It was immediately obvious that it was coming from the rear end. I started tearing into it expecting to find that the rear drive had a bad bearing, but instead found it to be the rear wheel bearing on the right side. Nothing there but bits and pieces. I could not believe that it was still driveable with a bearing being that bad.

New bearings on both sides solved the problem.

 

Don't know if yours is similar, but is something to check.

 

Joe

[Eck]

Qout):....found it to be the rear wheel bearing on the right side. Nothing there but bits and pieces.

 

 

Seen this before myself....squeels like heck too...

[Royal Star]

Thanks everyone for the ideas on the cause of the squeal. Even after the shop took the bike out for a high speed ride, they could not duplicate. Sounds like having the wheel bearings changed out would be a good mitigation strategy.

John