Tech Tip:Front End Alignment

What??? Is there such a thing? Absolutely!

The easiest way to find out if you have an alignment problem, is look at the wear on the rear tire.

If the wear pattern shows excessive wear or cupping on one side more than the other, than it’s a

good chance that the bike is not running true or straight. I like to call it “crabbing”.

What’s actually happening is that the bike is actually going sideways. It doesn’t mean that you are

at a thirty degree angle to the curb. 

The slightest bit of angle of two to five degrees will be enough to peal five to seven thousand miles

off of one side of your tire.

Ernie