Originally Posted by
noodle138
Hello all,
I have an '06 Lemond Victoire and when riding over rough asphalt, the head badge rattles against the head tube. The badge is relatively thin aluminum connected to the head tube with 2 small rivets which don't hold it tight. I was considering tapping on the rivets with a small rubber mallet, but thought I would ask here first for any other ideas.
Tapping on the rivets from the outside probably won't do any good by itself. You need to support the back side of the rivets from the inside of the head tube and then tap the rivets from the front, preferably using a punch with a concave face. This squeezes the rivet longitudinally and expands it laterally and thus tightens it. The glue fixes suggested by others are much less work!