hay hay i got some slicks. only had time to change the front one and it seems good. problem is, the front wheel quick release axle kind of fell apart while i was taking it off. i put it back together best i could, but i had to guess how because nowhere on the internets could i find anything that told me e.g. washer, washer, spring, fork, fork, spring, nut (think that's the order i put em on). so i hope i haven't bollocksed it up. back tyre this weekend. uh ohs...
― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Friday, 10 August 2012 08:31 (eleven years ago) link
DL - you might be better off going to a bike shop and getting them to check your quick release, you really don't want your wheel to fall out while you're riding.
― I've been to Suffolk (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 10 August 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
quite right indeed.
― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Friday, 10 August 2012 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
dunno about that, it ain't rocket science
http://www.montaguebikes.com/assets/images/ownermanual/standard-labeled-quick-release.jpg
― kmfdotm (ledge), Friday, 10 August 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
that's what i need! thanks ledge, you're a ledge!
― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Friday, 10 August 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
ha
― caek, Friday, 10 August 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
except the drawing's missing two washers there. never mind, i'm sure i got it right by looking at the back wheel.
― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Friday, 10 August 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
washers eh, what's the point in them.
i was having terrible trouble opening a super tight quick release lever the other day. my super bike nerdy friend - not quite up to the level of building his own wheels but i wouldn't put it past him - fixed it in a jiffy by turning the lever a full turn without opening it (anticlockwise i presume), then it popped open no trouble. magic!
― kmfdotm (ledge), Friday, 10 August 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
washers probably sit between the nut and the spring at either end, but most quick release assemblies don't have them
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Friday, 10 August 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
i was having terrible trouble opening a super tight quick release lever the other day
my lo-tech solution to this is always to whack it open with my pump placed through the wheel
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Friday, 10 August 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
mine's one of those special quick releases that only open if the bike's upside down so that's maybe something to do with it.
― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Friday, 10 August 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link