bike maintenance help

[Jannza]

I have a creaky noise / something loose on front of bike.

Last night I undid the stem, spacer rings etc and all still looks greased, tightened back up.

 

If you stand in front of the bike and hold front wheel and pull on handlebar there's a bit of movement from where fork joins up to the handlebars.

 

Any ideas folks or do I need to try and get in to mr dooley?

[chung]

Hi Jan,

 

Try tightening (but don't over do it) the star-nut on top of your fork first before you completely tighten the stem bolts to the fork. This will make sure your forks bearings are firm & compressed properly without any play, which I suspect is whats happening.

 

Try it and see how you get on.

 

Regards

 

Chung

[Seb]

Jan

 

This is quite a common adjustment. There is loads of stuff on the web with pictures etc along the lines of this.

 

http://bicycletutor.com/adjust-threadless-headset/

 

One reason for the slack could be wear in the bearings so if it feels rough when you try adjusting it would be worth thinking about changing them. They're not that expensive but you need special tools to change them so it's really a job for a shop unless you are really keen.

 

Hope this helps

 

Seb