Top Tip: Handlebar alignment
dbmnk
Posts: 217
If you, as I, always find your handlebar to be off alignment even with the most intensive fiddling, here's a tip for you:
- Make sure the handlebar is centered in the stem (easy, else use the leash/ruler method)
- Loosen brake levers
- Loosen stem at steerer
- Take off the front wheel
- On flat/even floor, place bike nose down resting on fork dropouts and handlebar
- Tighten stem at steerer
- Now it's aligned properly
- Make sure the handlebar is centered in the stem (easy, else use the leash/ruler method)
- Loosen brake levers
- Loosen stem at steerer
- Take off the front wheel
- On flat/even floor, place bike nose down resting on fork dropouts and handlebar
- Tighten stem at steerer
- Now it's aligned properly
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A solution to a problem I never have...........but thanks anyway!
SimonCurrently riding a Whyte T130C, X0 drivetrain, Magura Trail brakes converted to mixed wheel size (homebuilt wheels) with 140mm Fox 34 Rhythm and RP23 suspension. 12.2Kg.0 -
Was trying to figure out a way to do it right, thank you.
A much loved, Giant Trance X3 20100 -
I knew there was a trick to it!
I don't think I've ever got it right first time - it's that one bike maintenance job that eludes me. Various shadows, or cables or graphics always throw me off slightly
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Dammit.
Until I read this I was perfectly happy that my bars feel & look aligned, but now I'm going to have to check when I get home, just to make sure.0 -
What if you've got your bars slightly off centre in your stem? May compound the problem!
I like it though, good tip.0 -
my forks have an adjuster which sticks out further than the drop outs
pretty ropey way of doing it0 -
no on the bottom
you can't put the forks down on the floor evenly0 -
ah i re-read it
ambitious way of doing it lol !0 -
