Wheel alignment tool...?

[YAMAEXUP]

http://www.racespec.co.uk/acatalog/info ... ttool.html

I found my one of these earlier when I was looking for something else...& then I remembered why I don't use it. When you mount it onto the rear sprocket & get it into the right place, it straight away tells you that the wheel is in the correct alignment. So i misaligned the back wheel on purpose...like miles out...but this tool still told me that the wheel was aligned ok.

Not recommended...save your money.

In fact do your wheels by eye...it'd be more accurate.

[joeboy]

Thats what the little marks are for on the blocks..wtf would you need that for its a waste of time.

[Stig]

prob is...most chain adjuster marks aren't accurate..better to use the old string method

[hotcam]

That and the laser ones are ok ONLY if you have a straight sprocket and
it is bolted to the wheel.
If you have a cush drive (most road bikes) they are useless.

The easiest method I have found is the same method used by many
WSBK teams, it's a variation of the string method:

2 bits of tube 5' - 6' long
A bolt or a bit of rubber band to hold them together

attach them to the rear tyre like this:


Point the steering forward, and then adjust the rear wheel
so the tubes are the same distance each side from the front wheel.

[YAMAEXUP]

A friends widow gave it to me...along with a whole load of more useful gear.

[YAMAEXUP]

That and the laser ones are ok ONLY if you have a straight sprocket and
it is bolted to the wheel.
If you have a cush drive (most road bikes) they are useless.

The easiest method I have found is the same method used by many
WSBK teams, it's a variation of the string method:

2 bits of tube 5' - 6' long
A bolt or a bit of rubber band to hold them together

attach them to the rear tyre like this:


Point the steering forward, and then adjust the rear wheel
so the tubes are the same distance each side from the front wheel.

I have & regularly use two bits of square tube ally together with a big G clamp to hold them to the back wheel...the marks on the swing arm are not that badly out on the Exup, but i've seen worse on Kwacks.

[joeboy]

prob is...most chain adjuster marks aren't accurate..better to use the old string method

How can the blocks be wrong unless the swinger is bent, I just cant work it out how they could be wrong?

[Stig]

Its more on the old stuff like LC's where theres more bend in the frame than the throttle cable

Only a minute fraction of wear in the marks leads to a massive amout of travel in the wheel edge...even the thickness of the line will make a hell of a difference

[joeboy]

Ive always found these big blocks on the exups to be spot on, but I always do them exactly the same, and check when its nipped up too.