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I very curious what others may know or have experience with riding a bike with a known rear wheel mis-alignment. It seems to me if the rear wheel is pointing to the right or left then something has to compensate for this. Either the front wheel has to be pointed one way or the other or the rider has to lean to one side or the other? So what does our CB forum knowledge base have to say.
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This is a link for how to align a rear wheel.
https://www.motorcyclistonline.com/how-t...-alignment
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(06-13-2018, 08:50 AM)activedirt_imp Wrote: I very curious what others may know or have experience with riding a bike with a known rear wheel mis-alignment. It seems to me if the rear wheel is pointing to the right or left then something has to compensate for this. Either the front wheel has to be pointed one way or the other or the rider has to lean to one side or the other? So what does our CB forum knowledge base have to say.
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This is a link for how to align a rear wheel.
https://www.motorcyclistonline.com/how-t...-alignment
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There is all kinds of stuff in the way that prevents using the tape measure method from swing arm pivot to rear axle on my EX, shown in the video, and of course there would be the same problem on the right side of the Standard CB. Consequently I have and use the Motion Pro chain alignment tool. The first time I used it I found that the alignment was slightly off, and that as mentioned in the video, the alignment marks on the swing arm ends are not 100% accurate. I already knew that the alignment marks were just a guide, meant to get alignment reasonably close, but there may be some folks that dont know. The Motion Pro tool works, and at an affordable cost.
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I use the alignment marks as a guide, then I fine tune the alignment with a set of digital calipers.
About a decade ago I had a rear tire replaced while on a bike trip. The shop did a very poor job of aligning the rear tire. I rode it for the next thousand miles or so, blissfully unaware of the misalignment. The first indication that something was wrong was when the chain started making noise and acting like it was sticking. Turns out that the misaligned chain wore the O-rings down to nothing and let all of the internal lube escape. After aligning the rear wheel properly, I limped it home the last 700 miles with the chain complaining the whole way.
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I'm sure someone will say otherwise, but the best way to align your rear wheel is to spin it and see where the sprocket rides the chain. if it rides center your wheel is aligned. if it rides off to one side or the other, guess what...
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(06-14-2018, 10:12 AM)jimgl3_imp Wrote: I'm sure someone will say otherwise, but the best way to align your rear wheel is to spin it and see where the sprocket rides the chain. if it rides center your wheel is aligned. if it rides off to one side or the other, guess what...
This is good, and inexpensive advice.
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