It sounds like a problem I had not too long ago. A slight feeling of looseness with an occasional squeak eventually was tracked to a not fully tightened quill stem bolt. I loosened and removed the stem from the headset completely. Cleaned and greased the threads that pull the wedgie thing of the stem, then reinstalled and made sure to tighten the stem bolt "firmly". Sorry, but I do not know the lb/ft of torque recommended...I just winged it. I believe this may be a good place to start that you can do yourself and if it doesn't solve the problem, then call in the specialists at the LBS.
Good Luck, Rusty On Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 12:13:17 AM UTC-5 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > Here is the headset. > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 13, 2021, at 9:12 PM, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! <jonasa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I got anodized headset rings/spacers (and I may be botching the names > here, but I’ll include a photo in the post after this and you’ll see) and > had them installed. I felt that the bike was a little vibratory but it > wasn’t until tonight that I found the source. I happened to lift the front > end by the bars and felt the bars shift somehow. I had a hex key and > checked both bolts in the stem - they were tight. I got home, looked it > over and found that the stem is moving around in the headset. It did NOT do > this when I had the old headset. > > > I went online and read horror stories. I stopped reading when my heart > started racing. Something about wrecking the steerer, which sounded > catastrophic and permanent whatever that is. Is this a minor problem that > can be fixed with a wrench, would you guess? Or am I going to need to > change out my headset - maybe this one is too big? Ugh, please not that. > > I will either have to drive 40 minutes across town to the mechanics who > did the service tomorrow, or if you say it’s an easy fix, I could trust the > REI which is only 20 minutes away. > > Hoping the answer is straightforward and the problem easily fixable, > Leah > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/iCQE8MrYmN0/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/238c5be3-8fb8-493a-b11a-a23cf0ee520en%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/238c5be3-8fb8-493a-b11a-a23cf0ee520en%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c31eb2cc-b557-4267-be5c-10210483ca7fn%40googlegroups.com.
