Laser Alignment

[SNOOPY]

I made my own wheel aligner about 2. 5years ago long before lasers .it is a peace of tube with adjustable bolts that measures the distance between the rims and you use feeler gauges to get your 2 mill tow in and then I set the steering not to Center but 2degrees to the right because we drive on the left side of the road hear . I have found that buy offsetting the steering my shoulder does not ache on long trips. It mite be old school but it does work well for me bike handles well and front tyre were is down to 1 mil in 30,000 k.

That is awesome. :thumbup:

Lasers just help at making what you did a touch quicker IMO...although some here think they are the only ones capable of doing so. :banghead:

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[Gray Ghost]

when doing alignments off the rear wheel,which is not a fixed part, are they checking the alignment of the rear wheel. Belt adjustments can change rear wheel alignment. How would this affect the front end alignment in relation to the rear wheel. If rear wheel is off and front is aligned to it could this give you that slight drift..?? just asking...:dontknow:

You get drift when the front wheels are not aligned to the rear wheel. Suppose that the front wheels are like (\ \) in relation to the rear wheel. The bike is going to drift to the left.

 

[SpyderAnn01]

when doing alignments off the rear wheel,which is not a fixed part, are they checking the alignment of the rear wheel. Belt adjustments can change rear wheel alignment. How would this affect the front end alignment in relation to the rear wheel. If rear wheel is off and front is aligned to it could this give you that slight drift..?? just asking...:dontknow:

We do that.

 

[finless]

We do that.

So that is one question I was wondering about.

If I get aligned and 2000 miles later need to adjust my belt "tracking", the rear axel has now changed in relation to the fronts so my assumtion is the alignment is now off again?

Bob

 

[Gray Ghost]

So that is one question I was wondering about.

If I get aligned and 2000 miles later need to adjust my belt "tracking", the rear axel has now changed in relation to the fronts so my assumtion is the alignment is now off again?

Bob

Anything you do that changes how the rear wheel sits in the swingarm will change the alignment.