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This reminds me of a story. When I met my, now, wife she had an 8 year old Specialized road bike. So to help win her over I offered to service her bike (and to insure i didn't have to play "on the road" mechanic). I did a complete clean and grease of the mostly 105 equipped bike. When she roads it for the first time she could barely keep from falling off. The bike was very unstable. She complained that if felt like the bike was drunk! What had happened was that her headset had been so overtightened that it acted as a steering damper. Now that damping was gone and she had to get use to the freely moving nature of a properly adjusted headset. Andy.