Yeah, just excess grease from the headset, wipe off and carry on as long as steering is smooth.
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Keep wiping it off periodically and taking mental notes of how fast the oily dust accumulates again. Start worrying if one day you find more oil than usual came out after a recent wipe. That means something went wrong with the seal or grease itself.
Alternatively, when oil stops coming out during use, it’s too late as it means the bearing has been running nearly dry for a while.
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Weeping grease, the oil in the grease dripped from the heat. totally normal, the grease should be fine. Clean the residue and carry on.
Worrisome if it is seeping grease, which would mean that the grease has failed and it is now way too viscous, this would look like a blob of hardened grease and spilled oil if leaving unattended. I have only saw this on very old machines.
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Yeah, just excess grease from the headset, wipe off and carry on as long as steering is smooth.
Keep wiping it off periodically and taking mental notes of how fast the oily dust accumulates again. Start worrying if one day you find more oil than usual came out after a recent wipe. That means something went wrong with the seal or grease itself.
Alternatively, when oil stops coming out during use, it’s too late as it means the bearing has been running nearly dry for a while.
Weeping grease, the oil in the grease dripped from the heat. totally normal, the grease should be fine. Clean the residue and carry on.
Worrisome if it is seeping grease, which would mean that the grease has failed and it is now way too viscous, this would look like a blob of hardened grease and spilled oil if leaving unattended. I have only saw this on very old machines.
Totally normal.
Is your wheel centered in the fork?