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Old 12-13-2007, 03:03 PM
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Hey everyone now this whole thing started yesterday morning on my way to work. About two blocks away from my place I looked down and realized that as I was riding in a straight line but my arms were sitting cocked a little to the right, left hand about 1/4" higher than my right. I pulled over and straightened my bars to my gas tank and peeked over at my tire which was pointing a little to the left with a slightly bent fender. Now both the handlebars and forks are perfectly aligned so its not my bars. The handling is fine and theres no real damage I bent the fender back and can't even tell anything was ever wrong. It's that damn front wheel thats just sitting a little off. I'm really seriously doubting that anyone backed into her because I'm sure there'd be scratches and dents all over but there aren't just a slightly bent fender (looks more like someone put a foot to it) and a crooked wheel. Does anyone else have any idea what could cause this?
 
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Old 12-15-2007, 04:27 PM
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Gremlins... Got to watch out for them...
 
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Old 12-15-2007, 05:06 PM
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Used to have the same thing years ago on dirt bikes, had to grasp the front wheel between my knees and jerk on the handlebars to straighten it out.
Someone may have bumped the tire on your bike throwing out the allignment of the triple trees, worst case is you may have to loosen the triple tree bolts, straighten it out then tighten the bolts again, hopefully it has just shifted in the tripple trees and not actully bent anything although thats unlikely.
 
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