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Loose handlebars

  • 02-04-2012 8:06pm
    #1
    Dermot Illogical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭


    So I'm on my way home and thinking the handling is just a little bit off. Couldn't figure out what was wrong until about 15 minutes from home the handlebars turned left and the front wheel didn't. I got it home and tightened the hex bolt at the top of the stem. Is that all I need to do, or is there anything else to worry about? It's a quill stem.


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  • #2
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭lennymc


    i think with a quill that should be it - im not sure if there is anything that can wear down. I would think that your ok now.

    something similar happened me coming down mount leinster last year. I was braking and the bars were twisting downwards! :eek:


  • #3
    Dermot Illogical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    Thanks for that, good to know. Descending Mt. Leinster? I'd have needed new bib shorts if that happened me! :eek:


  • #4
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭lennymc


    LOL. yeah - it was a bit of a catch 22. the more I braked, the more the bars twisted. worked out fine in the end. :)


  • #5
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,278 ✭✭✭kenmc


    lennymc wrote: »
    LOL. yeah - it was a bit of a catch 22. the more I braked, the more the bars twisted. worked out fine in the end. :)
    If you descend in the drops that wouldn't have happened!


  • #6
    Holyboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 869 ✭✭✭Holyboy


    RT66 wrote: »
    So I'm on my way home and thinking the handling is just a little bit off. Couldn't figure out what was wrong until about 15 minutes from home the handlebars turned left and the front wheel didn't. I got it home and tightened the hex bolt at the top of the stem. Is that all I need to do, or is there anything else to worry about? It's a quill stem.

    I'd take out the stem, take off the wedge bolt, grease the head of the bolt and the threads and also a tiny smear on the inside of the wedge then put it all back together, that should keep it from happening again. :)


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  • #7
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,407 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Not a lot to do with the op, but reminds me of something I hadn't thought about for years... A nutty descent into Enniskerry, probably in '88 or '89, when a strange rattle began from somewhere slightly ahead of, and beneath my nose. Anyway, when we got to the bottom myself and a mate went to sit and wait on a wall in the square for the more rational descenders of the group, lifted the front of the bike over the kerb by the stem, and..... off pops the front wheel. Front axle had split and the only thing holding the wheel in place was me leaning on it. Very glad I chose a pothole-free line down....


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