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[shagzee]

Two nights ago after a two hour high speed ride, it noticed a slight noise and shimmy in the bike's rear end.

I have an 06 Ultra with 35k (miles) on it.

I pulled off the highway, had a look and couldn't find anything... it was pretty dark though.... I hobbled home on the side roads.

In the morning I found chunks of my rear wheel bearing sitting inside the hub on the belt side, last night I pulled the wheel off and have a look at what I found...

Because I discovered that there is an inner cam bearing failure that the Moco acknowledges but won't do anything about, it's not unreasonable to think that there could be a wheel bearing issue too!

The owner of the shop I go to is a long time friend, he said he has never seen this before!

First photo is how it should look... second is how it did.

Sorry about the lack of focus.

[shagzee]

Hi Murph
were any of the balls missing?

[LovemyCVOgirl]

Wheel bearings  .     OMG  . Sometimes the more issues I read about on this forum, the less I want to ride my MC.  Is it safe 

[timo482]

i had a bearing get loose in the hub a year ago - the bearing was fine - the wheel was toast

that wheel had 10k on it - the current set has 10k and looks perfect

ball bearings are less maint - but when they go they go all at once, with tinken wheel bearings i could tell they were going and deal with it - but they took LOTS more maint - take the wheels off at least once a year and repack - twice a year when riding a lot - once when broke i turned a thou off the spacer to get another 6 months out of the bearing.

on the old bikes - every 2000 miles - soak the chain, check everything change all the oils, fix a few things, every 6000 or so change the chain, grease the wheel bearings, lube the cables

on the new bike - change the oil every 5000 change all the lube and check everything every 10000. rebuild the engine every 30000, rebuild the trans every 60000....

night and day

oh well

to

[murphy]

Hi Murph
were any of the balls missing?

Yes... about half of them jumped out!