my 06' is in the shop for this issue
My 06' is actually at Blue Moon Cycle being looked at for the wobble and they're waiting to hear back from BMW. I was running tire pressure 40/46 to reduce the wobble but they told me that was too high and they're trying to find a solution for it. I told them the higher tire pressure helped reduce the wobble but they're trying to find a better solution. The steering dampener is fine they said so they're looking at the ball joint I think as well as communicating with BMW. At least they're recognizing it is an issue. They told me that there were a batch of bike recalls for certain bikes with this issue and were looking to see if this was one of them.
In my opinion that must be a lot of bikes. A friend was really excited about getting an 03' and test drove it while we were at a dealership open house in NC and he noticed the vibration right away and it freaked him out. I test drove it myself after checking tire pressure on the Metz's and talking to the tech staff there and found that the 03' had the same vibration my 06' did which blows away the theory that changing the front fork brace to a pre 05' version would fix this issue. Both the 03' being sold at the dealer and my 06' have Metz 880's in good shape. I believe that part of this is tire related, but part is also that the bike has basically no tolerance or allowance for tires that aren't absolutely balanced perfectly or once they've got a few thousand miles on them it's not happy.
Well, I have hated not having my LT for this last couple weeks while they've tried to fix this issue on mine, but on the plus side at least I have a new 07' 1200GS to break in. I'm hoping they find a solution to this soon so that I can pass it on to everyone.
I think the LT's are fantastic bikes other than this 40 MPH wobble on deceleration. Yes, you should have your hands on the bars, but then again the damn thing shouldn't be shaking either. That particular issue feels like the 1000 LB gorilla in the room that BMW has been ignoring. If that 03' hadn't done that my friend would have snatched it up in a second. Had mine initially had the issue I'm not 100% sure if I would have paid what I did for it myself, although now that I did I'm glad cause I love the bike. Anyway, if they get this fixed on my 06' I'll let you know what the deal is. If they don't, I'll still love my bike and still be embarrassed that it wobbles when decelerating and be mad that I can't hold my SO's knee because I'm afraid of what could happen.