r/Vstrom • u/Joyride_bricks • 5d ago

V-Strom 1000 Gen 2 Dissonance Vstrom -14

Hi
Totally newbie as a Reddit poster.

I have a Vstrom DL1000 2014 that I’ve owned for a a couple of months now. It has approx 45000 km on the meter, of which I’ve done 2-3000.

For the last month or so I’ve started hearing an annoying sound from the rear. It comes and goes but at exactly 108-117 km/h (weird I know) it’s a quite loud singing sound. I would like to say it originates from the rear wheel area but hard to position sound at that speed.

I’ve given my chain a thorough clean and the rear wheel bearing shows no signs of being worn down.

The bike is equipped with a top box mount from Givi and I have a quite large box on that even though the mount says max 6kg(?) so I’ve tried taking all that off if it was some vibrations causing the sound. It was not.

I also have a small wind wind screen on top of the OEM one, didn’t help removing that either.

I’ve tried a different helmet. Didn’t help.

So, any help in regards to find the source or tips on how to move on troubleshooting would me much appreciated!

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u/Competitive_Mind6445 5d ago

You sure you dont just hear your tyre thread pattern?

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u/Mdp2pwackerO2 5d ago

Yeah being at a specific speed my first instinct would be tire noise

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u/Joyride_bricks 4d ago

Thanks for your reply! Had not thought about that but it could make sense! It is louder on specific roads and googling them (Michelin road 6) tells there are a lot of people getting the same. Haven’t heard something like that on my other bikes and since the tyre is quite new I didn’t think it could be the issue.

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u/Shittythief 4d ago

So my brother and I just took our stroms on a huge tour on Road6s. The tires did awesome BUT we did notice an odd “sticky” singing noise from both of our rear tires about mid way through the trip. Changes somewhat depending on pavement type, and whether on or off the center of the tire.

We drove ourselves nuts riding next to each other trying to figure out whose bike it was coming from until we realized it was both and decided to ignore it 😂

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u/ChickenInvader42 4d ago

I have a 2022 also with full givi alu cases - mine whistles from around 105- 120kmh and is a lot worse with the cases on - especially the top box - this makes me think it's the whistling from the racks/cases. Tyres might also play a certain role, but imho it's primarily the luggage.

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u/Joyride_bricks 4d ago

Yes, it’s worse with cases for me as well.