Before you do anything else. If it was wobbly when you bought it, you should pull the fork and check for the ring of death. Steerer tube failures aren’t something to mess with.
droobieinop on
What bike is this?
Defiant-Ad8781 on
Sheesh.Take it to a bike shop already
pizza-piebutbetter on
Do not ride it, it sounds like you know very little about bikes, and I do not mean this in an offensive way. Take it to a shop, it sounds like the headset, where the fork and all the bearings basically are, is probably messed up.
justokayatbikes on
I might be crazy but the responses here seem to ignore the fact that this fork is just weird. I’ve never seen anything like it? Your front end is loose because you can’t compress the stack but there doesn’t appear to be a way to do that with the internal structure of the steerer tube. Is that actually the fork steerer or maybe a weird extender? If it’s the fork get a new one, if it’s an extender, remove it. Either way it is incredibly strange.
Klibansky on
It’s a time fork, decathlon bike were equipped with these forks in the early 2000’s. Beneath the spacers there should be a screw to tightened this fork. Here’s a picture you can zoom
u/Klibansky seems to have provided the correct answer. This looks like an old fork by Time Bicycles, and the headset is designed to be adjusted with an adjuster below the stem.
If you don’t have an adjuster, well… maybe the previous owner was happy with the ghetto adjustment of pushing down the stem and then tightening the bolts.
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No problem!
Look underneath the crown.
Before you do anything else. If it was wobbly when you bought it, you should pull the fork and check for the ring of death. Steerer tube failures aren’t something to mess with.
What bike is this?
Sheesh.Take it to a bike shop already
Do not ride it, it sounds like you know very little about bikes, and I do not mean this in an offensive way. Take it to a shop, it sounds like the headset, where the fork and all the bearings basically are, is probably messed up.
I might be crazy but the responses here seem to ignore the fact that this fork is just weird. I’ve never seen anything like it? Your front end is loose because you can’t compress the stack but there doesn’t appear to be a way to do that with the internal structure of the steerer tube. Is that actually the fork steerer or maybe a weird extender? If it’s the fork get a new one, if it’s an extender, remove it. Either way it is incredibly strange.
It’s a time fork, decathlon bike were equipped with these forks in the early 2000’s. Beneath the spacers there should be a screw to tightened this fork. Here’s a picture you can zoom
https://preview.redd.it/qydk7wxht1tf1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c5bbff1a748196a464a5bb5e1fc79646049c263
u/Klibansky seems to have provided the correct answer. This looks like an old fork by Time Bicycles, and the headset is designed to be adjusted with an adjuster below the stem.
If you don’t have an adjuster, well… maybe the previous owner was happy with the ghetto adjustment of pushing down the stem and then tightening the bolts.
If you want to keep the fork, you could get something like this: [https://problemsolversbike.com/products/adjustable-headset-spacer](https://problemsolversbike.com/products/adjustable-headset-spacer)