So I am putting my front end back together and have noticed a few things
First off, to my knowledge, my bike was not involved in an accident and i have rebuilt the forks, which appear straight. The triples seem straight too
So here's the problem- when I am sliding the forks up into the triple trees, it seems like I really have to tweak and mildly force the right fork into the top triple when the left one is already in. Then, once I get both forks into the triple and the front wheel bolted on, the front wheel tends to naturally want to sit about 30 degrees off to the left relative to the triples. If I hold handlebars and force the front wheel back in midline, I can then tighten the triples and it seems to stay in place. I just thought it was strange that the front wheel at rest (without the triples tightened) seems to naturally sit way out of midline. Anyone else experience this? The front fender is not on either, so maybe this would have helped keep the forks from twisting out of line? At first I was thinking maybe something was bent but that doesn't seem to be the case for what my naked eye can see.
Thoughts?
First off, to my knowledge, my bike was not involved in an accident and i have rebuilt the forks, which appear straight. The triples seem straight too
So here's the problem- when I am sliding the forks up into the triple trees, it seems like I really have to tweak and mildly force the right fork into the top triple when the left one is already in. Then, once I get both forks into the triple and the front wheel bolted on, the front wheel tends to naturally want to sit about 30 degrees off to the left relative to the triples. If I hold handlebars and force the front wheel back in midline, I can then tighten the triples and it seems to stay in place. I just thought it was strange that the front wheel at rest (without the triples tightened) seems to naturally sit way out of midline. Anyone else experience this? The front fender is not on either, so maybe this would have helped keep the forks from twisting out of line? At first I was thinking maybe something was bent but that doesn't seem to be the case for what my naked eye can see.
Thoughts?