Old 01-01-05, 07:55 PM
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OneTinSloth
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where did the LBS guy want you to put a spacer? i don't understand how a spacer on a road/track crankset would help alignment issues. i know that sort of thing definitely works on a BMX bike, but yeah, that doesn't make any sense to me.

you should've said that you got into an accident in the first place. if you got whacked, the frame is most likely not aligned, depending on where you got hit, how fast you were going, how fast the car was going, and which part of the bike took most of the force of the impact.

take it to the shop, have them use the ***-2 to check it, and proceed from there. cold-setting the frame back to where it should be will probably run about $20. if they want more than that, or you don't want to pay it, you can check back here, or sheldon brown's site for instructions on how to do it yourself.
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