Front wheel

There was an earlier thread on this, Simon. Your wheel should be built with a 1/8" offset and not central to the hub.

A 1/8" spacer between the front brake plate and the slider will help if you need to use the bike but the solution is to rebuild the wheel with the offset.

The other thing is to keep the pinch bolt loose until all is centralised by pumping the forks down hard.

There is no offset at the rear wheel BTW.

When I got my 88 Dominator, it had a handlebar flutter at 34 mph. Nothing at 33 or 35 mph. When I fitted new tyres, I discovered that the front wheel was offset to the right. So I set to with a 4" adjustable spanner, moved the rim over until it was central. The 34 mph handlebar flutter disappeared. Then I fitted the new rear tyre - it was rubbing on the guard where it is inset to clear the chain guard.

A previous owner had re-rimmed the bike, and didn't check the rim offsets before tearing down the original wheel.

If you do re-centre your rims, make sure that you keep the spoke tensions even

Paul

Previously simon_oneill wrote:

Hi all I'm just fitted the front mudguard and noticed the front wheel is offset to the near side, I've got all the spacers and felt washers in place but I can't see what I'm doing wrong. The tyre edge is 10mm from the slider on the left side and 19mm from the slider on right can anyone help. Thanks Simon

Hi Simon,

It looks to me that you may have 7" fork yolks with 7 and 3/8" fork sliders, (the right hand slider has a wider boss to mate with the brake plate). This would put your wheel too far to the left and the brake plate would not mate with the right hand slider, worth checking. Also take note of Neil's advice re. the pinch bolt side,

Regards, Rob.

Hi. ive had a bent wheel spindle before now , throwing the wheel out. slacken the wheel spindle and put a screw driver in the hole on the end of the spindle and turn it and see what effect it has on the wheel gap within the forks. look at the top of the wheel see if it moves from side to side at all.. just a thought . Baz

Previously simon_oneill wrote:

Thanks Rob I think you may right I measured the gap between the two legs at the top and as far down I a could get and the are splaying out at the bottom I didn't realise the sliders have different size bosses I'll have to try find the correct size slider

Thanks to you all for your advice Simon

Hi Simon,

I don't like the description of the fork legs splaying out. Remove the wheel and mudguard and if they still splay out check the fork yolks between the centres top and bottom. They obviously should be the same and you'll then know which yolks you have,

Regards, Rob.