Had time this morning to have a look at my Sherco stf 250 and it's the same as yours so good to go, at least you have brought it to our attention so if we strip ours down we know what to expect
As your bike is only a year old I would start by checking another bike of the same age, also check at a dealer.
You couldn't misalign by that amount through two clamps let alone three!
I suspect Sherco have found a cheap solution to a problem!
How does it ride? If it's good don't worry about it.
Dick.
It does seem a lot to be misaligned through error or something wrong. I haven’t ridden it yet but will tomorrow. I’m at a trial Sunday so should be able to inspect someone else’s bike.
Here's an old pic of mine. Seems to show the same effect... maybe? Sorry, don't have it anymore.
Thank you for supplying me this pic. I’ve been scanning the net trying to see the same bike closely. This pretty much clarifys that mine are ok then. Thanks again
I’m assuming you didn’t need to prise open the stantion clamps on the yokes to slide the forks through both top and bottom yokes?... if you did then the head bearings aren’t set fully in the head stock
No straining required they slide into position with ease.
You're going to need to find another Sherco to find out if you're at all unsure of your work. I would think that if things were really screwed up though, you'd have never gotten the forks back into the triple clamp. If there was anything other than normal resistance when you put them back in, I'd be worried.
Did you actually replace the races and the lower press fit bearing?
I was hoping someone on here had the same bike to put my mind at ease. Yes I did a full replacement cups and pressed bearing. Everything works fine, suspension, steering just looks strange.
I would suggest that the fork mounting bore on the top and bottom yokes has not been machined square and true to the outside profile?... if the outside profile had been machined square to the bored but not to the centre spindle hole then you wouldn’t have been able to slide the fork stantion through both the bottom and top yoke. It does look a bit strange though ?
Yeah the stantions slide up with ease it’s just strange like you say
Hello, I’m new this this site so hope this is in the correct topic. I have a 19 factory Sherco st 250. Being a year old I thought I would change the head race bearings. After installation I have a strange issue with the yolks looking on the p***. Also when you eye the Stanton through the head tube it looks to not be parallel. See pics. Cheers
19 Sherco head stock issue, advice required
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Thanks for looking. ??