Posted by Mark on June 14, 2002 at 02:49:11:
In Reply to: Re: skewed rear end posted by David K on June 14, 2002 at 01:48:06:
I should have mentioned that I can find no evidence that the drive belt is out of alignment, however, I have not devised any means of measuring/testing, just eyeballing. The belt is quiet and seems to be centered. I removed the seats and layed a straight edge (4' level) from the center of the bar risers to a point over the center of the rear tire. The fender/seat assy appears skewed a couple inches to the right (from the rear). But if I align the same edge from the bar center to the center of the set/fender assy, the tire looks skewed to the left as couple inches. Who knows? My hunch is that the seat/fender may have been shoved over in a light fall. How strong is this thing? There is some minor damage to the upper left corner of the sissy pad. Could a hard blow there, say from falling against a wall or whatever, move that fender assy? I tried leaning the entire weight of the bike on the opposite corner, the upper right of the sissy bar, against a wall and it was insufficient to even move the fender away from the tire at all, nada!