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Old 10-12-06, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by urbanknight
OK I should be fine then. I first noticed it when going down a hill and the front seemed to be more flexy, so I stopped and held the front brake while pushing on the handlebars a little. That was when I found too much play in the headset and tightened it. Now the test just shows some slight flex in the fork. I can't measure it that way, but I'm pretty sure I'm getting no more than the 1/2" described above (and it is a Logic fork). Maybe I just never paid attention to it before the crash, and am now paranoid over everything because I don't want to crash again. That's why I replaced the fork, the carbon one got lacerated by the spokes of a collapsing wheel and although the fork did not break, it's questionable as to what the lashing did to it.
Steel is wonderful stuff. It can flex like that for decades.
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