Originally Posted by
IndyCommuter
Good commute yesterday, although something on the bike just doesn't seem quite right. The handling seems sluggish and loose. I stopped a couple of times and looked, but I can't seem to find anything wrong with it.
It could be your headset. For some reason my commuter bike needs its headset tightened on a very regular basis, and it's not something you can just "see" (at least, I can't, but I'm hardly a wrench). For more information about headsets (or anything else about bicycles, for that matter), see Sheldon Brown's web site. Here's the
page for headsets.