Simple Steps to Check Wheel Alignment in a Motorcycle
"Tires that are unevenly worn out?"
Is the handling of your motorcycle odd? Tires that are unevenly worn out? A chain that makes strange sounds? Believe it or not, the cause of all these disorders might be a severe misalignment of the front and rear wheels.
We're talking to the location of the rear wheel in the swingarm when we speak about wheel orientation, and hence its alignment with the frame and the front wheel. The front wheel is not adjustable, but in the dropouts, the rear wheel can change. That's important for chain-slack alteration, but it also implies that the wheel may be out of whack.
In comparison, properly balanced wheels make the journey more comfortable because the ride would be easy to control and more stable with a properly aligned wheel. A non-aligned wheel, on the other side, will make you face tragic injuries and put your life at risk. Today, in order to have a safe and stress-free journey, we provide you with some easy steps on how to verify the wheel alignment of your two-wheeler.
Steps on how to check wheel alignment:
1. To allow each wheel to spin freely, place the motorcycle on the center stand.
2. Double the string such that half of its initial length is its length.
3. Now tie this string to the rear wheel so that the middle of the folded end of the string is placed right at the center of the tyre’s surface area.
4. In order to make it stable at a fixed location, stick this end with tape.
5. Take both ends towards the front wheel of this string. The advantage of attaching the middle of the string to the center of the rear tyre is that, with respect to the front tyre, the two free ends of the string would now stop at the same length.
6. Attach both ends of the string to the ruler after you are finished with the above move and put this ruler on the front tyre surface area in such a way that there is no bend.
7. Ensuring that the rope is parallel to the ground, connected from the rear tyre to the front.
8. In addition, it is important to tie the string to the ruler in such a way that the distance between the two open ends is equal to the width of the rear tyre. As the front tyre's width is less than that of the rear tyre, there would be a difference on both sides of the front tyre (between tyre surface and string).
9. Measure the distance on both sides by using a ruler. Notice the original readings and spin the wheel a little bit after that. Repeat the process several times each time with regard to wheel rotation.
10. If the wheel orientation is correct, so that will be equal to the readings on both sides of the wheel. If the difference between the holes stays stable after many rotations, either your bike has flawless wheel alignment, or else it needs to be better aligned.
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