Last weekend I took a ride to Bundaberg for a mates birthday party. Great weather and the bike was running like a dream.
However just outside of Childers I noticed some strange feedback in the front, like the wheel was coming loose. I pulled over quickly, inspected the front end and seeing no signs of loose or missing bolts, continued on thinking this must just be the rough bitumen.
The feedback continued, intermittently and this time on a smooth patch of road. So once again I pulled over, my concern growing. After a moment of
I put it down to my front wheel bearings starting to go. There was some small play on the axel no more than a millimetre or so.
I still had another 300km to get home, so off I went cautiously, expecting at any moment some sort of catastrophic bearing failure leading to an axel shearing off. But my over active imagination thankfully was just this, and I arrived home safely, although the front wheel was a little noisy and I could hear metal floating around inside the rim.
Tonight I took off the wheel and this is what I found: