Mavic Askium rear wheel

cliffey
cliffey Posts: 80
edited June 2008 in Workshop
I have a minor concern over my rear wheel. Following a clean I put my rear wheel back on my bike- tightened the quick release etc.

I then span the wheel testing to see how true it was. When i went to spin the wheel it had some movement in it. ie moved form side to side. Before taking it to my local bs i wondered if anybody had encountered this before ?

can anybody help?

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  • noggincp
    noggincp Posts: 1,881
    did you attach the spacer that comes with mavic wheels (well Aksium anyway)?
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  • Muzak
    Muzak Posts: 78
    cliffey wrote:
    I have a minor concern over my rear wheel. Following a clean I put my rear wheel back on my bike- tightened the quick release etc.

    I then span the wheel testing to see how true it was. When i went to spin the wheel it had some movement in it. ie moved form side to side. Before taking it to my local bs i wondered if anybody had encountered this before ?

    can anybody help?

    It could be entirely unrelated but you should probably be aware that there is a known problem with a batch of Aksium rear wheel hubs which can cause both movement and creaking before failure. Good luck.
  • blorg
    blorg Posts: 1,169
    What exactly do you mean by moves from side to side- what part moves? Is it possibly just not seated properly in the drop-out? Make sure it is fully in. Sometimes you will need to hold the wheel in correct position while tightening the quick-release.

    I have a pair of Aksiums myself and they don't have any spacer so I wouldn't worry about that.
  • timetrialler
    timetrialler Posts: 315
    Maybe NOGGINCP was referring to the alloy spacer that goes on the freehub before you mount the 10-speed cassette. If you miss this spacer out, you wont be able to take out all the slack when you tighten up the cassette lock ring and the cogs will still have some sideways movement in them. From memory, you don't need the spacer for a 9-speed cassette, only 10-speed. I'm guessing that the overall thickness of a 10-speed cassette is very slightly less than the older 9-speed versions, hence the need for the spacer ?
  • blorg
    blorg Posts: 1,169
    Could be- wouldn't be affected by removing the wheel unless you took the cassette off for cleaning? If you did, that definately could be it.

    Note all 11/12T 10-speed Shimano cassettes have this spacer and it is nothing to do with the particular wheelset. As timetrialler says, 9-speed Shimano cassettes don't have it.

    If it is the cassette you can get very handy schematics from the Shimano site - select products, road bike, your group, then "cassette" (example PDF for Ultegra.) I found these very useful when sticking on my first new cassette the other day, had that spacer (item 17) in the wrong position at first.
  • JC.152
    JC.152 Posts: 645
    Are they this years Aksiums? cos I remember someone at my club had problems with this years aksiums rear wheel and when he rang up Rourkes for advice, they could guess what the problem was before he said because of that faulty batch

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