Morning all. Pics are of my 2023-model Gazelle Grenoble C5HMB. Can anyone please tell me how to take up a bit of slack in this headset? (The slack is in the headset, btw - not in the monoshock suspension 
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)Gazelle headset adjustment?
- Thread starter danfoto
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You didn't show the bit where it's adjusted, so I have to give you the general solution. Loosen off the stem clamp screws, tighten the cap screw until the play disappears without the bearings binding, then retighten the stem clamp screws.
Thanks flecc. I'm actually familiar with that process, but if you take a peep the the picture I've just posted above, you'll see why I'm scratching my head with this one.
The photos you posted don’t really show enough.
Does your bike have head tube suspension?
If so then the manual in the link explains how to adjust it in section 3.1
They couldn’t make it more complicated if they tried. So good luck in trying to adjust this properly.
Does your bike have head tube suspension?
If so then the manual in the link explains how to adjust it in section 3.1
They couldn’t make it more complicated if they tried. So good luck in trying to adjust this properly.
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Thanks, but section 3.1 of that PDF is concerned with adjustment of the head tube suspension, and as I stated in my OP, the play is in the headset itself - not in the suspension.
(Incidentally, adjustment of the suspension is actually no big deal.. It's one of those things that is much harder to explain than to do.)
We seem to be at cross purposes here. The front suspension adjustment is independent of the headset adjustment. If on my bike I adjust the front suspension (as in the PDF to which you kindly linked) to the point at which it has no play whatsoever i.e. it is locked solid, there is still play detectable in the headset. Not a lot, but more than there should be. That's what I need to take up.
It says if you can’t fix the head set lateral and fore and aft movement yourself you need to take it to a Gazelle dealer and they have the tools and know how to fix it for you.
This usually means that it is an awkward sob to repair yourself and you will probably break something if you try.
This usually means that it is an awkward sob to repair yourself and you will probably break something if you try.
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Alas, Life has got in the way of my sorting this out. I'll come back to this in due course and report the outcome.
Sorted! Referring to the third picture I posted, I first slackened off the two Allen screws seen at the base of the handlebar clamp thingy, expecting to be able to pull that and the bars off upwards. But no: it didn't want to let me.
I then realised that what I had assumed was a plastic cover (i.e. the part labelled VP-Z051AD) over a threaded stem locknut is in fact the means of adjustment. It's alloy and it's threaded. So by gripping and turning that in increments clockwise together with the bars, holding it in place, and then twisting the bars back to where they were, I started taking up the slack. Repeated three times, Allen bolts tightened, job done!
Weird, but effective.
I then realised that what I had assumed was a plastic cover (i.e. the part labelled VP-Z051AD) over a threaded stem locknut is in fact the means of adjustment. It's alloy and it's threaded. So by gripping and turning that in increments clockwise together with the bars, holding it in place, and then twisting the bars back to where they were, I started taking up the slack. Repeated three times, Allen bolts tightened, job done!
Weird, but effective.
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