• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

very gut think in my front direction

zanol

zanol

Husqvarna
B Class
please look at the photo and tell me what could cause my front wheel is misaligned with respect tables. I really don´t understand...
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Reminds me of a situation I had on one of my bikes a few years ago after a nasty little get off... The fix came in replacing one of my lower fork tubes. Among other things, a set of V-blocks and dial gauge should tell you pretty quickly if you've got an issue with a tube. Just a thought.
 
yes, in and out well.
I suspect is the tube of the lower table, it´s possible?
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Take the axle out and spin the tubes individually and see if one walks in and out, if so it is bent. vise grip a screw driver or something on the other one getting it close to the free one while spinning the free one so you can see minuet deflections. If not I bet you have a tweaked triple clamp.
 
It almost looks like the top triple clamp is rotated to right relative to the bottom, of course it's difficult to say for sure with only a picture but if that is the case then it might be pushing the left fork leg in just a bit and right one out just a bit. Have you tried loosening the nut on the steering shaft and playing with the whole triple clamp assembly?
 
Hard to see from the given pic but after a good get-off sometimes the forks twist in the triple clamp pinch bolts and do exactly that. As already mentioned, loosen off all of the bolts (pinch and steering stem) wiggle things around and see if the axle comes back in line with the triples.

I also like Motosportz idea of checking to ensure the fork tubes aren't bent. It will only take a couple of minutes and the peace of mind of knowing the tubes are straight is well worth it I think.
 
This is ironic! I just noticed this same thing on my bike last weekend when installing the Motosportz front disc guard and bleeding my brakes. My axle is also twisted just a degree or two to the left.:confused: I did what Kelly mentioned and they seem to just turn without changing the center point. So I assumed that I must have tweeked the triple just a tad. For me though, it rides fine and I don't notice it at all because the handlebars are relatively square and perpendicular when going straight (which isn't often in the woods). I haven't messed with the steering shaft like Rajo mentioned, may have to try that next time I work on my bike.:thumbsup: I'm interested to see what you find as the culprit.
 
today I took the front of the bike to a man who works with iron. Te triple clamps are belt but he said know how to give them the perfect shape.Better idea is buy a new ones but..will see what they look like.
Thanks to all and since I bought the bike (9 mounths) never drove right because the previous owner must have given a great fall.
but still I walk and I love the bike!
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I am rather suprised no one suggested loosening all the nuts and bolts which hold the forks, axle and top tripple clamp then twisting the handlebars with the wheel restrained to straigthen stuff out and re tightening. This is nothing new. I suppose you could rotate the upper fork tubes and see if things wiggle around. I end up doing it a few times per chain life and I sure am not going at AA rider speeds. Yes I suppose you could have bent the tripple clamps or a fork tube. Check the fork tube like described above. I see that piece welded on the frame which acts as a steering stop and I don't see that your bike has been crashed really hard. They keep making that piece more robust. You can also inspect to see how the aluminum part which hits that is deformed. Sure a rider could crash in a manner to bend stuff whithou the steering stop being hit but that isn't usually the case. Back when british bikes were the norm before the Japanese wave a tree was considered sufficient to restrain the front wheel however I find a tree doesn't work for dirt bikes a shoe type thing you might find on a rail type motorcycle trailer would be better. If you have rubber mounted handlebars you might not get them straight without taking the rubber parts out and re positining them.
 
fran you have good eyes!
I´m wainting for the job on triple clamps and than I report. Thanks a lot
 
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