After my little accident and repair I have noticed that the steering is slightly off center, can this be adjusted on the XX or is it a case of bending something straight again, the bike rides absolutly fine apart from the slight off center.

Your triple tree is cupped....SELL IT !

can you explain a little further, i assume you mean one of the forks is slightly in front of the other, can this not be aligned

left the bike back to workshop and it,s now perfect, what did they do ?

don't know


thanks for all the replies and advice

Chances are they loosened the axle clamp bolts and the axle nut along with the lower triple clamp bolts and then grabbed the bars and gave it a bit of a tweak. Tighten things back down while bouncing the front suspension on occasion and Bob's your uncle.

It is not unusual for the trees to take a bit of a tweak in a boomy situation. Back when things were not held together so robustly, we used to just put one guy on the seat with a firm grip on the bars and another guy would kick the tire till things straightened out. Hell, I've even stuck the wheel between a couple of fence slats and done the same thing. A good yank or two on the bars is all she took.

cheers for that, selling wasn't an option, your solution is basically what I thought myself, a very slight change in fork angle couldn't really be that big a problem, I have no shakes or problems with the steering and the frame is straight, now i just need to remember the ground is hard