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Message: [QUOTE="Shig, post: 855869, member: 50190"] Looking down at your triple clamps, you will see that the centerline for the fork tubes is slightly forward of the centerline for the steering stem. The distance between centerlines is the offset. I don't know the offset for the CR, but one of the changes people often made to quicken the steering of the early CRFs was to swap out the clamps for a set with a shorter, 20mm to 22 mm offset. You need to buy both the top and bottom clamps for this mod, then have a shop press the steering tube into the new lower. It will dramatically change the bikes handling characteristics, so I would do alot of research on the mod before swapping them out. There is a chance that what the dealer really means is that they will give him a new top clamp with an offset bar position. This changes the bike's ergonomics, but leaves the steering geometry the same. [/QUOTE]