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Old 02-07-2013 | 11:10 PM
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Doing this streetfigter-ish project and today i noticed that my front tire is "slightly" slanted.
Before taking it apart the tire seemed to be pretty straight.

The bike is a Kawa ZX6 D3 92

Are there any Kawasaki experts here that knows what might be wrong and how i can correct it.
The persons helping me will each receive 2000% positive karma.
 
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Old 02-08-2013 | 12:14 AM
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Undo your triple clamps a bit, top and bottom, stick the wheel between your knees (standing in front of the bike of course) and twist the bars (push one and pull the other) till it lines up. If that doesn't help you might need to slacken off your head stem bearings and try again. I found my first bike like that after a somewhat gymnastic get-off trying to power slide around an up hill corrugated corner. Bike was fine ten minutes later, I walked with a limp for a week.
 
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Old 02-08-2013 | 10:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Dark Angel
Undo your triple clamps a bit, top and bottom, stick the wheel between your knees (standing in front of the bike of course) and twist the bars (push one and pull the other) till it lines up. If that doesn't help you might need to slacken off your head stem bearings and try again. I found my first bike like that after a somewhat gymnastic get-off trying to power slide around an up hill corrugated corner. Bike was fine ten minutes later, I walked with a limp for a week.
Thanks. I will try that and update you if it worked.
 
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Old 02-09-2013 | 05:00 AM
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Undo your triple clamps a bit, top and bottom, stick the wheel between your knees (standing in front of the bike of course) and twist the bars (push one and pull the other) till it lines up. If that doesn't help you might need to slacken off your head stem bearings and try again.
+1 to the above.....
 
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Old 02-13-2013 | 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Dark Angel
Undo your triple clamps a bit, top and bottom, stick the wheel between your knees (standing in front of the bike of course) and twist the bars (push one and pull the other) till it lines up. If that doesn't help you might need to slacken off your head stem bearings and try again. I found my first bike like that after a somewhat gymnastic get-off trying to power slide around an up hill corrugated corner. Bike was fine ten minutes later, I walked with a limp for a week.
Thanks man it worked, the wheel is now straight. 2000 karma points for you, good sir.
 
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Old 02-13-2013 | 07:48 PM
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George of Jungle here to help.
 
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Old 02-13-2013 | 09:56 PM
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Isn't it great that the simple things we learned as kids to fix out bicycles still ring true today? Good times.
 
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