Rear wheel

Wongy66
Wongy66 Posts: 37
edited July 2009 in MTB general
My rear wheel keeps releasing its self, how and why? :cry:
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  • VWsurfbum
    VWsurfbum Posts: 7,881
    is a quick release? if it is could be the threads gone on the squer?
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  • dave_hill
    dave_hill Posts: 3,877
    VWSurfbum wrote:
    Threads gone on the squer?

    Sorry to be pedantic but do you mean skewer?
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  • RealMan
    RealMan Posts: 2,166
    Youre not tightening up the quick release lever enough.
  • Wongy66
    Wongy66 Posts: 37
    yes its quick release, it seems really tight when i lock it, can pull at it and it doesn`t move, then when i start riding, POP, off it comes :twisted:
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  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    You've not damaged your dropouts? And you are FULLY seating it in the dropouts correctly, right?

    Just make sure both of the above are true!

    :wink::lol:

    Otherwise, I'm out!
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    how are you tightening the QR?
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  • Wongy66
    Wongy66 Posts: 37
    with my little hands
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    Wongy66 wrote:
    with my little hands

    and HOW talk us through how you attach the rear wheel.
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  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    Do you flip the lever open, twist the nut on the opposite side of the lever, then pull the lever shut, so that it's fairly tough to close?

    If not this EXACT way, then you are operating the QR the wrong way.
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  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    Sorry Nick, you're a bit quicker than me!
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    true, but then there is also the end position of the lever.

    the number of Qrs i have seen incorrectly fitted is scary.
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  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    Yup, like in supermarkets... They all seem to fit the forks on backwards. Probably because they think it looks cool, but in reality, it's REALLY dangerous!
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  • Wongy66
    Wongy66 Posts: 37
    I think i may have been tightening it the wrong way, i was opening the lever and turning it so the spring was closing then shutting it :oops:
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    bigchazrocks wrote:
    Yup, like in supermarkets... They all seem to fit the forks on backwards. Probably because they think it looks cool, but in reality, it's REALLY dangerous!

    the backwards fork is actually not that dangerous on those bikes, I have scared the crap out of a lot of Swedes by waving an allen key at them to get them off there bikes and sort the forks for them.
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  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    You can do it that way aswell. Doesn't matter, as the axle is connected to the lever end, so screws in the same way it would if you were turning the nut.

    How tight is it to close the lever once you've wound it up?
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  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    nicklouse wrote:
    the backwards fork is actually not that dangerous on those bikes, I have scared the crap out of a lot of Swedes by waving an allen key at them to get them off there bikes and sort the forks for them.
    Yeah, maybe on adult bikes, but for kids.. On forks with mad-short rake's... Makes for REAL quick steering!
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    img0259.th.jpg

    front Qr shown as reference.

    with the lever showing the words open. wind it in so that you have a little it of grap on the nuts ( some times you need to turn the acorn nut as the lever end will not turn)

    then close the lever fully so that it is right back and not touching anything. and you see the words closed if pressent.

    the closing force should leave a good impression on the palm of your "little hands" :wink:
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  • Wongy66
    Wongy66 Posts: 37
    its quite tight 2 close, didn`t wanna over tighten it tho, the scary thing is i`ve been riding it for over a week before it happened
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  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    It's quite hard to over-tighten them. You'll know if you are.

    If you absolutely cannot get it to sit right, and it keeps popping off, take to to yuor LBS, and they can firgure it out for you.
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  • Wongy66
    Wongy66 Posts: 37
    Cheers for all your help, i`m goin 2 the garage now :lol:
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  • XxxBFGxxX
    XxxBFGxxX Posts: 1,355
    bigchazrocks wrote:
    You've not damaged your dropouts? And you are FULLY seating it in the dropouts correctly, right?

    Just make sure both of the above are true!

    :wink::lol:

    Otherwise, I'm out!

    mine used to come lose its a 12mm QR it turned out the dropout bolt had snpped.

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