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Anonymous Wed 26 Aug 2020 02:24:14 No.1539051 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1539057 >>1539104 >>1539135 >>1539172

New to bike repair; how in gods name do I align the axle?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Aug 2020 02:42:32 No.1539056 Report

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Put it in a vice grip and whack it with a hammer. Or replace.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Aug 2020 02:50:14 No.1539057 Report

Quoted By: >>1539072

>>1539051
>>>/n/bbg
is the axle bent or is the wheel just out of alignment with the axle? If it's just alignment then you need to true the wheel. That's an intermediate to advanced level bike skill, if you don't know what you're doing you could fuck up your wheel worse.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Aug 2020 03:37:17 No.1539072 Report

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>>1539057
I assume his problem is the thing where there are 3 inches sticking out of one side of the wheel and nothing on the other side.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Aug 2020 03:43:55 No.1539074 Report

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>>1539072
oh shit, didn't realize that. That's an easy fix, just adjust the locknuts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Aug 2020 05:06:12 No.1539104 Report

Quoted By: >>1539106

>>1539051
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/tooltips/hubs.html

you should take this opportunity to overhaul the hub. Adjusting the bearing load is half the job and doing it well without fresh grease may be impossible

you don't even know if there are ball bearings in there. But if there aren't, or they're bad, high quality replacements are both cheap and generic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Aug 2020 05:08:34 No.1539106 Report

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>>1539104

bearings are such a shit meme

"oh no I have to spin 5 more watts because my bearings are paste and this makes my training more effective anyway"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Aug 2020 05:16:36 No.1539109 Report

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>>1539106
you appear to have combined the racefag 'all riding is training' 'oh what am i training for? nothing' logic with the unraced poorfag 'bikes should be terrible' logic. I don't quite understand.

the real reason to look after hub bearings is not because they're so bad to ride in average condition but that you actually destroy them doing so by causing pitting. By all means ride your a little rough bottom bracket into the ground because that's just a unit you can replace but destroying a wheels bearing surfaces might even put you out the whole wheel depending on how good a bike shop you have for parts. It's just fucking stupid. It's like not replacing a cambelt.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Aug 2020 05:18:54 No.1539110 Report

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>>1539109
>I don't quite understand.

That much is clear

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Aug 2020 06:36:35 No.1539135 Report

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>>1539051
Kind of a pain in the ass to deal with and you need special tools to take the gears off and stuff. Probably better to take it to a shop to adjust. Hopefully they wouldn't charge you more than $10 or something. Find a shop that looks more "normal people"-y and not "racer"-y.

>>1539106
Having a shit bike makes 20mph harder, it doesn't make 200w harder. You won't be "training" any more effectively, you'll just be slower.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 26 Aug 2020 09:45:56 No.1539172 Report

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>>1539051
by moving the Bearing cones along the threaded axle
there are also different thickness of Lock nut that can be used to adjust the width and centering

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Anonymous Wed 26 Aug 2020 09:49:33 No.1539176 Report

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some more modern hubs have a large spacer on the Drive side

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