bikelover
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posted June 03, 2003 04:33 AM
Front End Help
OK, I need help. I landed a wheelie really hard. No, it didn't hurt the fender or the snorkle, but it did tweek the forks and my gonads. Afterwards, the steering was screwed. Bars off to one side. Have you ever heard of this happening? Were my upper and lower clamps loose? Not to my knowledge.
Here is what I did to correct it. I put it on the rear stand and loosened the upper clamps. I stringed the tires and got them straight then tightened the upper clamps. Is that the best way or do you have a better one?
This damn pipe is gonna kill me. The power is so explosive, especially down low that it sometimes catches me by surprise like last night. It almost went over. No, I wasn't trying to wheelie. I just pulled out and grabbed a handful of throttle. Before I knew it I was nearly vertical.
  
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ZHooligan
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posted June 03, 2003 08:30 AM
Actually one of the best and most consistant ways to straighten things up in the front is to loosen the triple clamp pinch bolts, take the caps off of the forks so you can collapse the forks completely in the triple clamps. In the collapsed mode they are the most rigid and will align the font. If you use a front stand you can then spin the front wheel with the axle pinch bolts loose and pop the front brake and a couple of time to further center up the alignment. This has always worked for me. On dirt bikes instead of taking the caps off I hust use a tie down around the top and bottom of the fork. But cosmetics make me avoid that on the street bike! 
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