For the longest time, I've been having a feeling that the handlebar of my Hemingway is a little lower on the right than it is on the left, so I measured bar end to axle (when I say axle, I mean the threaded end of the QR skewer; I even flipped the skewer around between measurements to get as consistent of a reading as possible) and found that the right bar end was about 15mm closer to the axle.

Needless to say, that was a rabbit hole I just had to go down. I figured the best way to determine if I am indeed seeing what I'm seeing is to compare headtube to seat tube, and this is what I saw:







Now, for comparison, I did the same with my Launch and this is what it looked like:







As you can see, the Launch's frame halves seem to be much better aligned than the Hemingway's. I checked the Hemingway's hinge to see if there's any play there that might be causing the misalignment; I opened the hinge, held the two halves perpendicular to each other and tried to find any movement at all and found none.

Now, mind you, this is not the sort of thing you'd notice while you're riding the bike, but it's the kind of thing that, like an annoying third-grader who never shuts up, sits there in the back of your mind and keeps nagging.

So, do you guys think it's about time I put the Hemingway - my favorite bike, I should point out - up for sale?