Something I'll mention (and I don't know if I've mentioned it here before or not) is that when you take the swing arm off replace the rubber seals on the swingarm pivot bolt.
Even with high mileage, they will still seal out the dirt pretty well, but that's not the issue. These things are the side thrust surfaces for the swingarm, and as they wear they wear mostly on the exposed faces: not on the seal lip itself.
Nomads seem to have a bit of side slop on the swingarm right from the factory, and as these rubbers wear it gets rapidly worse. This side slop screws up the handling, and when it gets bad enough the bike will wander over any road imperfections. You will notice it mostly at low speeds on a lumpy street or one with road grooves, but it affects high speed handling as well: particularly when transitioning from a right to left lean in an "s" curve (or left to right for that matter) and if you hit a bump or groove while in a curve.
These things are cheap and easy to change, and you gotta take them out anyway to lube the swingarm bearings.
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