92KK 84WW Olaf
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Point-Seven-five wrote:You aren't looking for loose fasteners. What you are trying to accomplish is the removal of any twist in the front forks that can cause them to stick with small inputs. You have to loosen everything and bounce the front end while going down the legs tightening everything in sequence until you reach the bottom. Of special importance is the fork brace.
At the starting point the only tight bolts will be the ones at the top triple clamp. Everything else will be loose enough that you can easily wiggle the front wheel from side to side in the forks.
Bounce the wheel, tighten the lower triple clamp pinch bolts. Bounce again and do the fork brace. Bounce again and tighten the axle screw. One more bounce and tighten the pinch bolts at the bottom of the fork legs. Now your fork legs will be parallel and fork action will be as free as possible.
This is really important. I have seen a few threads in different groups about issues after tyre changes arising from not doing this.
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