Crabbing

[InDeSkyz]

I dropped my bike the other week and I believe that's what caused some crabbing in the front wheel.
I rode it up to Colemans a couple of days ago, feeling like I'd smashed the neighbours biggest house window.
They kindly fixed it, however, now it is crabbing again. It's pulling to the right, more when braking
and I noticed it on the way home, just getting worse as the ride went on.
I haven't dropped the bike since, so the only thing I can think is that it's kind of coming loose somehow.
Apparently I can bump/knock the wheel against something to try and straighten it, but I'm a bit worried that this might not be the thing to do if it's occuring again.


Does anyone have any tips/suggestions?

[froggyfrenchman]

hate to be the one to tell you.. but it sounds suspicously like bent forks. I hope for your sake it isn't. Happy riding

[myvice]

Bent forks would be my guess also, all is not lost as they can be straightened if the damage isn’t too bad.

[Ixion]

Bent forks is unlikely if Colmans fixed it after the initial bin, and it was OK for a bit , as OP says. Maybe the forks are twisted in the triple tree, and Colmans just gronked em back (OP mentions "bump/knock the wheel against something to try and straighten it")

Sometimes you can think everythings back in line, but it's actually still being pulled awry and deteriorates again . probably needs the yoke clamps slackened and the fokes lined up.

Take it back to Colmans and explain.

[froggyfrenchman]

twisted in the clamps is the other thing i thought about. Ixion beat me to it. best luck

[InDeSkyz]

Thanks guys. Hopefully it's fixable.

[zadok]

Any damage to the brake disc(s)? Might be something to do with it.

[Teflon]

I dropped my bike the other week and I believe that's what caused some crabbing in the front wheel.
I rode it up to Colemans a couple of days ago, feeling like I'd smashed the neighbours biggest house window.
They kindly fixed it, however, now it is crabbing again. It's pulling to the right, more when braking
and I noticed it on the way home, just getting worse as the ride went on.
I haven't dropped the bike since, so the only thing I can think is that it's kind of coming loose somehow.
Apparently I can bump/knock the wheel against something to try and straighten it, but I'm a bit worried that this might not be the thing to do if it's occuring again.


Does anyone have any tips/suggestions?

I have the same problem. My left fork has been bent for ages, you learn to compensate.

Can be a prick to get the front wheel on tho.

[InDeSkyz]

Unfortunately, it's un-rideable in this condition.
The pull is too extreme.

[FROSTY:Me]

Bring it to me --Ill have a look over it and see if I can get it tracking true again.
Slightly bent forks --especially in the smaller tube sizes are fixable
Id first be looking at allighnment then loosen the whole front end and see if it cracks back into place

[Ixion]

Bring it to me --Ill have a look over it and see if I can get it tracking true again.
Slightly bent forks --especially in the smaller tube sizes are fixable
Id first be looking at allighnment then loosen the whole front end and see if it cracks back into place

Yeah, I've straightened small 'uns - so long as the bend is right up under the bottom yoke. If the bend is in the working part of the fork, it's forked - so to speak. Can be hard to spot in such cases, the forks still work OK in an up and down sense.

I'd still pick alignment.

Take kind Mr Frosty up on his offer, he'll sort it for ya

[crashe]

InDeSkyz - I can take you up to Frosty's place to get your forks fixed....
Let me know when want to do it.

[White trash]

Crabs? Yeah, fucken little bastards itch like crazy. I had to shave all me pubes off and rub a special cream on to get rid of 'em. Good luck.

[crashe]

Crabs? Yeah, fucken little bastards itch like crazy. I had to shave all me pubes off and rub a special cream on to get rid of 'em. Good luck.

Wrong type of crabs mate......

But thanks for sharing that info with us all....

[InDeSkyz]

Haha

Cheers Crashes. I think my inexperience OR caution is using my imagination
to make more of this problem than is real.
The bike is ridable. I don't feel it's right, but I think I should be fine getting to Massey.
It seems to be noticable at slow speeds (40-).
I don't think this is all in my head, 'coz everything seemed so perfect a week ago.
And I'm learning about my bike, but damn man - at the moment, I just wanna get out there, meet folks, ride and have fun. I see every moment sitting on the couch as opposed to sitting on my bike as wasted time.

BRING ON THE SUNNY WEATHER AND GREAT RIDES.