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Contact your dealer immediately if you notice
any defects, no matter how small.
- Only ride this bike again once the dealer has
completed the necessary repairs.
Frame and suspension
Risk of personal injury and material damage!
Defects on the frame and suspension can
lead to dangerous riding situations, crashes,
accidents and damage to the bike.
9.1.3
Problem
Sounds: cracking, flapping,
scraping etc.
Lack of resilience
Less resilience despite correct
set up
Problem
Wheel wobbles
Sounds: cracking, flapping,
scraping etc.
Unstable riding performance
Increasingly unstable riding
performance, extremely wobbly
(you can feel every stone)
Possible causes
•Frameand/orforkdamaged
•Suspensionnotsetup
correctly
•Suspensiondamaged
Possible causes
•Tyreisdamaged
•Spokeisbroken
•Thereisaforeignobject
stuck in the wheel
•Wheelisdamaged
•Airpressureistoolow
•Puncture
Remedy
•Haveyourbikecheckedbyaqualified
bicycle mechanic straight away
•Makesurethesuspensionisset
up and adjusted in accordance with
the instructions contained in the
manufacturer’s manual.
•Haveyourbikecheckedbya
qualified bicycle mechanic straight
away.
Remedy
•Haveyourbikecheckedbyaqualified
bicycle mechanic straight away
•Removetheforeignobject.Then
cycle very cautiously. Have your
bike checked by a qualified bicycle
mechanic for any consequential
damage.
•Haveyourbikecheckedbya
qualified bicycle mechanic straight
away.
Pump up the tyre (see Section 7.1.3).
If the bike starts to ride in the same
way shortly after, the tyres are
deflating slowly (see next point).
•Replacetheinnertube,rimtapeand
outer tyre (if necessary) if your bike
has a separate tyre system.
•Changethetyres.Haveyourbike
checked by a qualified bicycle
mechanic(*). You must not use the
bike until this issue has been fixed.
Wheels and tyres
Risk of personal injury and material damage!
Damaged wheels and tyres can lead to
dangerous riding situations, crashes, accidents
and damage to the bike.
- Contact your dealer immediately if you notice
any defects, no matter how small.
- Only ride this bike again once the dealer has
completed the necessary repairs.
9.1.4
(*): You can replace an inner tube, tyre and rim tape yourself if you have enough experience.
Have your dealer demonstrate the appropriate actions and practice them until you know how to do them properly
yourself. When assembling and dismantling wheels, observe the instructions in Sections 8.6 and 11.1.