on the three wheel recumbent, depends how you're using it. they have a very wide stance, which makes maneuvering anywhere around traffic hard. also, they are very low and i've been told, therefore more likely to be hit by cars, thus the common use of flags for recumbents. my general attitude is, if you need a recumbent to get on a bike, go for it, but if you don't, skip it.
― for the sake of future hipstorians (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
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