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Old Mar 31, 2008 | 06:35 AM
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Default Bent Rim Fixed...Maybe Bent Fork Now???

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About 2 months ago I had an accident becuase of some crazy lady swerving into my lane like she was trying to avoid hell or something and her back bumper grazed my front tire...you can imagine the rest. The following day I was able to ride it around the block a couple times to make sure nothing was mechanically wrong with the bike, since the only thing wrong with it was the right side fairing and it was a beautiful Saturday I decided to take it out for a spin...

I ride for a couple hours and nothing seems wrong until I decide to take the bike back to the garage...as I'm riding back out of nowhere I feel like the front wheel is wobbly and unstable...I leave the bike alone till the following week when I took it to get re-painted, after that I rode the bike around for a while being very careful as it sometimes was my only means of transportation. I finally come to the conclusion that the problem with the front rim is getting worse very quickly so I decide to take it to a mechanic shop.

I leave it there and they tell me I need a new front rim, I buy the new front rim and ride out...for about 1 week the bike ran just fine until I decided to take it to work one day...to go to work I have to travel about 65 miles back and forth. As I'm riding the bike feels like it's really pushing me to the right side, but since that day we had winds of like 25 mph I thought it was just the winds...lol By the time I get back home I could already feel somethings wrong once again with the front end...

PRESENT:

Now its been about 2 weeks since then and every time I ride I feel the bike pushing me towards the right side and sometimes even while riding at normal speeds I have to lean on the left a little just so I can go straight... I haven't had time to go to the mechanic and sit there while they figure out whats wrong with the bike, although I plan on doing that this week I would like to have an Idea of what I may be up against...could it be a bent fork, bent rim again, a need to align the tire??
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