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Am I tipped?

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Old 01-11-10 | 10:32 PM
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Am I tipped?

So tonight I was fiddling with some saddle positioning after screwing it up a couple days ago on the rollers. I get on the rollers tonight after pretty much putting it back where it was and start riding. As I'm riding along I look down and notice that I can see the right side of my front wheel and the right side frame decals but not the left. Any effort to bring the whole bike to a place where I can see really straight down the middle did not seem like a good idea as I ended up swerving a bit when I tried it.

What do you think might be going on?
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Old 01-11-10 | 10:53 PM
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huh? are your bars not centered? do you have a threadless stem? is that not straight with the wheel? I don't see how the saddle position could make you unbalanced. Do you feel unbalanced, not just from looking at the bike?
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Old 01-11-10 | 10:57 PM
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I actually feel fine. My bars, headtube emblem, and front wheel line up perfectly (to me). It could be that I run my seat pointed slightly off to the right to satisfy a minor leg length discrepancy, but it really felt strange to look down and see way more of one side than the other. I even rotated my hips on my seat...
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Old 01-12-10 | 01:32 AM
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Whatever I do I'm not perfectly centered over the bike either. I always seem to lean to the right a bit. I don't notice it except when I'm on my rollers, and only then when I'm warming up. After that I'm too gassed to care.
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Old 01-12-10 | 04:25 AM
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I noticed this when riding in the real world last summer. When looking down at the front wheel I normally can see the right side of the wheel, but not the left.

I think the bike is fine. I'm just twisted.
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Old 01-12-10 | 08:03 AM
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OK. Seems like I'm not really any more twisted than the rest of you. That makes me feel better.
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