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| Gearing Fixed and all my problems due to a few springs... | | Date Created: 08 Mar, 2006, 12:17 PM |
| I spent a few hours last night working on my winter bike to try and sort out the problem with the gearing. Everytime that I cranked really hard on the peddles in my 34 compact x 13-21 gearing options the wheel was forced out of the wheel hanger on the drive side. Frustrating when you are a few miles from home, worrying when it is 9pm, dark and you are still 15 miles from home. |
Well I thought that I had fixed it so I found the steepest hill around and tried to crank up it... and no-luck it popped again.
I decided to take it down to the bike shop and get it fixed. It took all of 30 seconds for Albert (from Albert Butterworths Bike shop, my favourite in Sheffield) to find the problem and fix it. It appears that the gear hanger on my bike is slightly thinner than the ones that exist on more modern bikes and this was causing the spring (in between the quick-release bolts and the hanger) to act as a washer which was reducing the friction keeping the wheel in true. After these were removed the problem was fixed. So there we go, the moral of the story is that old bikes have some quirks that only an experienced bloke will know about. Thanks once again to A. Butterworths for great service. |
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