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My forks seem to be too narrow for my wheel and i'm not sure why.
I have a Raleigh record spring (around 1984 i think because it has the older graphic set) which not so long ago had a bit of an incident with a car, unfortunately the car won and my front wheel was bent in half. I got a cheap new wheel with the intention of building up the original hub again (mainly because it was gold and shiney), when i fitted the new wheel it was a bit of a wrestle to get on but went on in the end and i was just happy to be riding again.
I have been doing some work on my bike today and decided to have a look at the front wheel. It was VERY hard to get off, Once off i looked at the fork and its a good 8/10mm narrower than the wheel fittings. On closer inspection the new wheel does look wider than the original by about 5 mm (are older hubs different sizes?) but the original hub is still hard to get into the forks.
Is this at all normal? Or have i bent my forks in the crash? they don't look lopsided. the forks look ok but i am wondering whether they are that safe to ride on when i have to stretch them open to fit on. They're made from reynolds 501 tubing so fairly chunky stuff.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38756139@N02/3890595260/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38756139@N02/3889808089/Any advice would be much appreciated.
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not having much luck with the picture posting, they're at this URL on flikr
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pics of narrow forks
thanks again
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This is very off topic but i am still in the nursery so need to do a bit of thread hijacking.
My forks seem to be too narrow for my wheel and i'm not sure why.
I have a raleigh record spring (around 1984 i think because it has older graphics) which not so long ago had a bit of an incident with a car, unfortunately the car won and my front wheel was beant in half. I got a cheap new wheel with the intention of building up the original hub again (mainly because it was gold and shiney), when i fitted the new wheel it was a bit of a wrestle to get on but went on in the end and i was just happy to be riding again.
I have been doing some work on my bike today and decided to have a look at the front wheel. It was VERY hard to get off, Once off i looked at the fork and its a good 8/10mm narrower than the wheel fittings. On closer inspection the new wheel does look wider than the original by about 5 mm (are older hubs different sizes?) but the original hub is still hard to get into the forks.
Is this at all normal? Or have i bent my forks in the crash? they don't look lopsided. the forks look ok but i am wondering whether they are that safe to ride on, reynolds 501 tubing so fairly chunky stuff.
i've taken some pictures but not sure how to upload them to the forum at the moment. will work it out and post them.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Sorry again for hijacking the post.
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