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Old 09-03-25 | 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by vintage cellar
Depends on the framebuilder. I think it would be worth it just to confirm if something was "off", or not.

Seems better to me than first butchering the frame with a file or Dremel. I guess the JB Weld at least could be removed if it didn't help.
It depends what you think you're going to learn of value about it being off, and if it being off is correctable or if you just paid someone to tell you "too bad". You can't align carbon at all and Ti is twice as flexible as steel, so you essentially have to bend it twice as far to get it to take a set. That's a huge problem if the front triangle is twisted.

The OP's problem is that his wheel doesn't go in straight. While the frame could be out of alignment in lots of different ways, only a few of those ways make the wheel go in off center. At this point, the OP checked that the dropouts are centered and aligned with each other, so there is nothing really left than correcting for the "short stay" or whatever happened. And that is pretty much going to be modifying the dropout, unless that produces the wrong result.

Keep in mind that adjustable horizontal dropouts exist largely because getting the dropouts to line up perfectly was so hard that the rider is supposed to do that final portion of the "alignment" themselves.



I'm not against doing real alignments at all - just pointing out that you need to have a realistic idea what you are getting out of it, especially when the bike isn't steel.
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