Mon, 5 Oct 1998 11:14:53 +0200 (MET DST)
- Message No. 4173
From: Torsten Metzner
Subject: Re: Stearing Head
|I just noticed the following problem on my @:
|
|When turning the steering while the bike is standing, Ineed quite a lot of
|power to turn the steering over the middle position. So I lifted the front
|wheel (with my mainstand :-)) ) and found out, that the steering has a
|position where it "rests" (einrasten). This position is the
|"middle-position", which means the front wheel is straight.
|
|My questions now are: what's the reason, how to fix it,
Hi Achim,
in my opinion normally this means that the bearings of the steering
(Lenkkopflager) is damaged. If the bearing is fixed to hard (zu stark
angezogen) then the balls of the bearing will be pressed to hard in the
bearing shell that's the reason why you have this "resting" position.
You have to mount a new one.
|and probably how
|long I can wait for fixing it (which means: is it dangerous) ??
IMO if I could really feel it, like in your case, while puting the steering
I would change it very fast, because the steering is one of the important
parts of the bike. Just remember how fast you will drive in a bend and
then think about a resting steering.
Hope this helps,
ToM
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