ninjazx12r55
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posted January 16, 2003 02:54 PM
zx12 steering alignment
any budding mechanic types out there who can tell me why my 12 feels like the left bar is further forward than the right when im driving in a straight line? has something moved and if so what do i need to do to fix it?
  
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kawair
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posted January 16, 2003 03:19 PM
Done a chain adjustment recently ? Check your rear wheel alignment.
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rs
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posted January 16, 2003 04:13 PM
It may feel like that due to the right grip being a little larger in diameter than the left one because of the throttle tube.
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Hells Dark Lord
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posted January 16, 2003 08:11 PM
i had that problem when I first got my bike, as it turned out, I had done a wheelie, an came down with the handle bars twisted, it twisted the forks in the triple clamp......just loosened the bolts straightened them back and tightened them back down...
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zxrcy
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posted January 16, 2003 08:50 PM
Alignment
HDL is right. I had the same trouble after an altercation with an antelope in Colorado. Undo both upper and lower triple clamps, straddle the front wheel and twist the handle bars back and forth until things are lined up properly. Mine now tracks straight hands off and the bars sit evenly when running in a staright line.
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entropy
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posted January 17, 2003 01:20 AM
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Done a chain adjustment recently ? Check your rear wheel alignment.
ding-ding-ding...
we have a winner!
first place to check!!!
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ninjazx12r55
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posted January 17, 2003 02:11 PM
thanks for the advice, will check the clamps this weekend, one guy on another site said to check that both my arms were the same length!!
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kcadby
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posted January 17, 2003 05:32 PM
DON'T go by JUST the MARKS on the swingarm!!!
I don't think Ive seen one that has the marks "right" yet!?!?!?
Use a tape measure on each side of the bike from the pivot point (front of swingarm outside of the frame) and check if the marks are even close...I think the closest Ive seen to date is about a 1/4 of a mark off...
Also...do a search here AND on LABUSA for threads on "the string method" of aligning the rear wheel  ...
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Hells Dark Lord
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posted January 17, 2003 09:31 PM
exactally right KC, I always measure the distance when adjusting the chain. nothing worse that a bike that cat walks down the road...makes them trun great one way, suck the other....lol
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