I've heard of a lot people saying the steering bearings are crap on these bikes. Have you replaced them? I don't know much else about this issue as I haven't had any problems. But you can find a ton of threads on this issue if you do a google search, including some that say they're having the same issues you are.
Bike is an 2007 VTX 1800 C model with around 9K miles on it.So at this point I have ordered everything to rebuild the forks Seals/ bushings also Ordered progressive fork springs today (Thinking its a Fork issue??)
If the bike WAS handling okay until recently, I'm not sure I would go so far as to go with Progressives. I'd just change fork oil and leave it at that. But the steering head bearing and shock bushings would be two other things to change regardless cause they are known problem areas.
We could spend hours and countless posts trying to identify what's making your bike handle weird but that's hard to do over the internet. If you send me your phone number in a PM we can get down to the problem much faster in a spoken conversation. We need much more info on how the bike is acting, what mods you've made to the bike, ect., ect........... before we can determine what might be at fault. If you think the front wheel is out of alignment.............do a string test off of the rear wheel up to the front and measure the front wheel offset from the rear tire center line. Draw a line on the floor from the rear tire center line and project it up to the front via a pencil mark on the floor.If the wheel is out significantly and as the offset increases.............- The bike will have a definite pull to one side or the other when your hands are off the bars. As a result you'll have to constantly slightly counter steer to the opposite side to counter act the off set to keep the bike running in a stright line. This can produce a pronounced flat spot, just the left or right of the front tires center line if the offset is significant enough. -It will also have tendency to "turn in" much easier either turning left or right. If the bike seems to "fall" into a turn in one directiuon more than the other, there is an alignment issue somewhere. That can be any number of things like a bent frame neck, bent swing arm, wheel alignment or unusualy large fork length difference. My 1800 forks lengths were off by 7mm which produced an offset and made it hard to get the axle in place durring assembly. I corrected this when I tore the forks apart and put RaceTech guts in it. It tracks striaght as an arrow with no hands now.Even with the bike exhibiting the above odd turning habits because it's out of alignment, it should still complete a turn with out feeling like it's nervous or shaking. Wheel alignment generally produces only a tracking error and most of the time is not detrimental or scary. Some bikes have an intential offset built in to them to offset the weight bias on the bike. If it feels unstable, like it's going to throw you off, it's more than just an alignment issue.
Key word here is Dunlop E 3 Check for tread and tire caseing seperation. Have you run it at different pressures? run it low a time or two? That's where I'd start. 90% good chance that's it
More information I bought the bike last August with 1250 miles on it it sat for several years just being started once in a while. Last November at the Lone Star rally the stock dunlop started to separate in the center I replaced it with the E3 I have on it now here is the wear pattern its wearing a flat spot on the left side of tire all the way around. as stated I always run 40PSI I checked it was down to 38 so I bumped it to 40 I have not been riding much lately.