Alignment is assumed perfect from the maker, but unless checked it is an assumption only.
A frame may be misaligned prior to sale then , and it may or may not have been made correctly. For example, I bought a used Waterford built Bomba and to my surprise I could not even get a rear wheel into it normally, I had to slide it in at an angle just to get it in the dropouts. Obviously something was not right as this should never be the case, and the wheel when installed was off center . To make a long story short I sent the frame to a trusted builder who has digital alignment table and he discovered one chainstay was brazed 1mm shorter than the other , the driveside dropout was malformed and obviously the frame was out of alignment. As to the "cause" , obviously the brazing mistake from Waterford was one, the dropout who's to say as the original owner claimed the frame was perfect for him went he sent it. What-ev-er ! . . . lol . . . . all was made well regardless of what-ev-er apparently had occurred. For Zach, 4-5mm is alot and really requires a professional who is experienced in these things to discover why . It may be a combination of things. On Saturday, March 19, 2016 at 6:36:25 PM UTC-4, Lungimsam wrote: > > So is it safe to assume alignment is taken care of at manufacture? > > Are these pre-sale misalignments? Or is it impossible to tell? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
