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Old Jul 21, 2011 | 03:55 PM
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I have a 98 Fatboy and after alot of checking things because of bad cornering i tried the " straight edge " method of checking wheel offset between front and rear wheels and found i have close to an inch and a half of offset....the front wheel is offset to the right....specks call for about a half inch....guess this would explain hard cornering to the right and easy to the left....any ideas ?????/
 
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Old Jul 21, 2011 | 03:58 PM
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Get the bike standing straight up. Use a square on the back wheel. Now check and see if the front wheel is perfectly straight up as well it should be. If not I would guess the neck is bent. If both wheels are equal I would look into wheel spacers next. Might have the wrong combination.
 
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