15lbs? duh!
On Dec 3, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Kyle Munz wrote:
15lbs? Yikes!
-Kyle
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Kurt Nolte
<[email protected]> wrote:
It was a long standing joke of mine that I could go six months
without seeing the sun, but then I started back at school last fall.
Did some checks today, spacer looked good, the rim spun straight,
and the two wheels are aligned as per my flourescent tube, so...
But! It's the little things that get you. Perhaps my tire having
only 15 pounds of pressure might have been exacerbating the
handlebars being off, so we shall see how it does today.
On Dec 3, 2010 2:57 PM, "surfswab" <[email protected]> wrote:
10-4 on the vampire shift. I'm the night guy for a 24/7 trucking
company and get frequent flak about the neccessity of getting back to
my coffin before sunrise (!)
I had a similar problem with my '95, but with complications. Some
troubleshooting tips from Dennis Hammerl (the fluorescent tube
alignment guy) helped identify it. Too bad he's not around anymore.
The guy knows his stuff.
Wish I could tell ya the solution is quick and easy, but it's not.
Fork tubes are relatively fragile, meaning easily bent, especially
below the lower fork pinch clamp.
Testing for that involves supporting the bike so that the front wheel
just barely touches the ground, loosening upper and lower pinch bolts
and twisting both tubes by hand, to see if either of them bind in
their clamps. That would indicate a tube that's bent above the lower
clamp.
If that's inconclusive, remove the wheel and repeat the exercise,
looking for off-center movement of the lower part of the tubes and/or
the clamps, indicating a bend in the tube below the lower clamp.
Kinda like you would roll a billiard cue across a table to see if
it's warped.
A further test is to remove the fork legs entirely and compare the
tubes against a known straight edge. I used a steel carpenter's
square.
Mine turned out to be complicated by a missing axle spacer, bent
forks, triple tree clamps AND the steering head, clues that the bike
took a hit severe enuf to bugger all that up, although none of the
damage was immediately visible.
I had bought the bike during a driving rain, so did not test ride it
first. My bad, and I wish I had. When I did finally ride it, it
steered steadily left and had the same hard left turn issue you are
describing (thanks to the missing spacer, compliments of the PO.)
Subsequent inspection, particularly paint flaked off the frame around
the steering head confirmed the extent of the damage.
Hopefully, yours is not that severe. It doesn't sound like it is,
since the bike tracks straight. But those are just a few suggestions
to help narrow down the problem.
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