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• #52
although i haven't entirely ruled out this:
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• #53
Have a couple mm's removed from your right forearm. Should even things out.
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• #54
stop trying to take it swimming.
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• #55
whuffo?
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• #56
maybe there is water in the left fork so its slightly heavier on that side just turn it up side down.
also turning the bike upside down will solve all your magnetic problems so if there is no water just ride it like that
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• #57
HTFU
The world is a sphere, so you can go where ever you want using exclusivly left turns, so stop bitching ;)
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• #58
After crashing my bike last summer I developed a similar problem. Not a massive deal but really quite annoying. It turned out that I had ever so slightly bent the steering tube of the forks (I think I've explained this badly but I mean the bit of your forks that you don't see as it's inside the headtube of the frame). They were only a few mm's out but I had to get new forks in the end...
Hope your problem is something a little easier to fix.
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• #59
this exact same problem happened in a bike shop i was working in a while ago and it was just the forks as they had been in a small crash and the left one had been pulled back closer to the frame than the other one. New forks :S
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• #60
It always seems to want to go left.
Let it.
You over-bearing friggin' control-freak!
It's old enough now to make decisions for itself you know, geez, cut it some slack.
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• #61
What size is your rear hub? I squeezed a 130mm rear hub into an old steel frame and it pushed the driveside chainstay out a little more than the non drive side due to the factory bend (for the chain ring clearance on that side). It always crabbed but when I starightened my bars it wanted to go right, however doing no hands it always favoured going left. I#d say just check your stays and see if they're both equally straight with the string method.
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• #62
Is your front wheel sitting centrally in the frame / not accidentally dished slightly to one side?
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• #63
If it wants to go left then let it. You don't want to end up in an abusive relationship. You can go right, the bike can go left. It's for the best
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• #64
frame alignment seems the only possibility after everything you've check...stange one.
Very sorry to hear that highlandpro mugged you off. He does it to everyone he deals with.
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• #65
Very sorry to hear that highlandpro mugged you off. He does it to everyone he deals with.
There should be a sellers black list or something in the classifieds section.
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• #66
Check.....with string......
You're obsessed Tommy.
S = \int d^{n}\xi \, \mathcal{L} = \int d^{n}\xi \, P(G{ab}) = \int d^{n}\xi \, \frac{\partial X^{\mu}}{\partial xi^{a}}\frac{\partial X^{\nu}}{\partial \xi^{b}}G{\mu\nu}
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• #67
update! i have discovered the source of the leftism. and not fucking second too soon it seems.
having eliminated everything else i'd decided it had to be a slight alignment issue with the forks. been hapily hooning about town with only the occasional quizical glance down at the forks trying to discern any visible misalignment or bend. couldn't see anything though and was sort of resigned to living with it.
today before heading out for a ride i decided to sort out a niggling rattle on the front mudguard. turned the bike upside down to remove the front wheel, went to loosen the nut, spanner on, twist and with not much force the whole drop-out seemed to move round by about 45 degrees. "that's weird" i thought "the nut still seems tight", had a closer look and the entire fork is sheared off just above the drop-out. it's almost completely cut though and hanging on by a thread. the cut is rusted on the inside so it must have been at least cracked for quite some time.
i nearly had a fucking heart attack right there. i've been riding this thing around down, cutting in front of busses, bombing down hills and slamming the brakes on for lights for two months with a fork held together by the thinnest sliver of rotton steel and paint. if i hadn't decided to take the wheel off today i might never have known the truth. doesn't bear thinking about really. gave me quite a fright i can tell you.
i'll upload a pic tomorrow. am now debating whether to just replace the fork or call time on the entire frame (which has a couple of other dents on the top and seat tube).
close call.
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• #68
Go buy a lottery ticket, now.
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• #69
And watch your back...
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• #71
The fork/bars whole headset sitch is straight (or as straight as i can tell by eye and under the mudguards). The headset turns freely in either direction and is very smooth. But the moment you start to ride the sensation is as if an invisible finger is pushing the bars on one side making the front wheel want to settle a couple of degrees out and causing a swerve to the left. It's noticable the whole time you're riding and makes no-handed riding impossible.
First thought was, the way i've installed the brake cables is pushing on the bars. I've now ruled this out as the pressure only comes with forward movement. if you hold the bike level and pick it up the bars don't want to move. It's only when riding.
Second thought was that the rear wheel was installed on the piss causing "crabbing". I checked and double checked that last night and re-seated it (in the rain and south easts with a borrowed spanner). It's straight.
Third thing was that the front wheel wasn't seated properly. Checked this morning and it seems to be straight and true and seated properly.
Fourth thing was perhaps the wheel/headset wasn't straight after all... treble checked it and re-aligned it again this morning. It is.
Set off for work and yep i'm still veering left.
I'm starting to think my frame and/or forks may be bent. I can't see anything obvious but i'm running out of alternative explanations.
After this thread and in 4 weeks you never took the wheel out?
Please tell me you did and it was an invisi-crack®
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• #72
course i did dude. re-checked it was seated properly more than once in the last three weeks. as did london bicycle repair shop when they checked the frame. nothing was visible. i'd been fiddling about with the eyelets fitting mudguards and having all sorts of irritating issues with stuck bolts etc so I would have seen anything there was to see. i don't know,i'm guessing it was there unnoticed* previously and had been powdercoated over.
*i assume unnoticed because the alternative would mean i'd be after highland pro for more than the cost of the unmentioned dings. to put it mildly.
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• #73
fork of death
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• #74
That'll polish out.
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• #75
A neg-shim should fix that.
This explalins it all.