Had a friend send this to me. ( I have never heard of this before)
I found this on the Road King Riders Delphi forum.
On Monday, a good friend was killed when one of the rear wheels on his tri-glide detached from the rear end. The trike crashed and he died several hours later in a hospital. Having investigated many mechanical failures as an engineer, I am frequently in search why failures occur. Someone at the memorial service showed me an email where it was written that these trikes have a problem with the left wheel coming loose and falling off. Supposedly, the motor company recommends retorquing wheels every 500 to 1000 miles and it is a known problem with these machines. I accepted this as true at the time. However, I came home and have not been able to find anything about this issue on the internet. Does anyone know anything about this problem? Initially, I assumed it was a maintenance problem, ie someone failed to properly mount the wheel.
I found this on the Road King Riders Delphi forum.
On Monday, a good friend was killed when one of the rear wheels on his tri-glide detached from the rear end. The trike crashed and he died several hours later in a hospital. Having investigated many mechanical failures as an engineer, I am frequently in search why failures occur. Someone at the memorial service showed me an email where it was written that these trikes have a problem with the left wheel coming loose and falling off. Supposedly, the motor company recommends retorquing wheels every 500 to 1000 miles and it is a known problem with these machines. I accepted this as true at the time. However, I came home and have not been able to find anything about this issue on the internet. Does anyone know anything about this problem? Initially, I assumed it was a maintenance problem, ie someone failed to properly mount the wheel.