This is my first bike with anything but my ego in front of the handlebars. The tires are not the original tires, but they are OEM spec Dunlops. The tire pressure seems fine, and the foot scoops (which I hate) are faced forward. I may just take them off. The turbulence does seem to just me the top of my head, but the whole bike still seems squirrley. I really need to get it out of town to see if anything changes. I don't know how many of you have ridden through Dallas-Fort Worth area, but I have never seen more consistently, god-awful, crap-tastic roads anywhere in my life, and I've been to Iraq twice, LOL.