I've been lurking around in the shadows on here for a while, but this is my first post, so a quick ‘ello, and a thank you to all the contributors.
As the title of the thread suggests, I've just sorted my front end issue, and I wanted to share the story.
So, bought the bike a while ago, and I have been busy chipping the araldite and bathroom sealant off that was holding it together (not joking) and generally tweaking it to my liking...
Come to mod the front mudguard and noticed that the wheel was sitting about 5mm offset to the right as you look at the front of the bike (too near the disc side fork). It was very noticeable where the tyre is nearest the top of the fork legs. The tyre was nearly rubbing on the mudguard bracket. Mmmm, that’s not right, let’s have a little look at that….
Well, after checking and rechecking I decided everything was correct.
I removed the front end. I followed advice from various threads on here, and everything was taken apart and seemed to measure up perfectly. Everything was the correct length, the correct size, and fitted correctly. Yup, it’s all correct.
I suspended the front end from the roof, dropping plumb lines, measuring fork offsets, spacers, my own patience, and staring suspiciously firstly at the yokes, then the fork lowers, the speedo assembly, and finally eyeing myself with suspicion, I was stumped. The wheels and forks were perfectly true to vertical and each other, everything that I had measured 12 times before had not grown or shrunk. The wheel was true, the axle true, the forks true, the yokes true. Everything was definitely bob on, everything of course, apart from the fact the wheel was pissed in the forks.
Well, I’ll save you the guessing game.
Some bugger has laced the wheel with a 6mm offset.
I’m off for a beer…..
Thanks again,
Dave
