Straightening stem/bars

Stormtrooper
Stormtrooper Posts: 420
edited June 2014 in Workshop
When straightening my stem do I need to slacken off the top cap, as well as stem bolts.

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  • trooperk
    trooperk Posts: 189
    No,just the stem bolts will do and while the bolts are loose you might as well check/adjust the head set.
    Specialized-The clitoris of bikes.
  • DKay
    DKay Posts: 1,652
    While you shouldn't strictly need to undo the top cap to line up the bars, doing so does make it much easier and seeing at it will only take all of 10seconds to do.....
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Nah - stick the front wheel between your legs and pull the front wheel in the required direction as hard as you can.

    Alternatively, get a mate to hold it and kick the front wheel as hard as you can in the required direction.

    Worked on my Raleigh Grifter, no reason why it won't work on my Ritte.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.

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