Best Place to Change a rear Wheel
charliew87
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Back wheel of my Bianchi has developed a wobble & a flatspot, it's almost egg shaped. I straightened out the side to side wobble but neither I or a lbs could fix the up and down movement.
Got a new wheel earlier. Assumed it would be easy to swap the cassettes over and chuck it on the bike. Turns out its a bit of a fiddle and needs clever tools. The lbs said they wouldn't be able to help til Tuesday due to staff being off.
Are Evans/cycle surgery capable of doing this, ideally I need my bike back in working order on Monday!
Alternatively if anyone has a way of doing the job without the tools that would be amazing.
Got a new wheel earlier. Assumed it would be easy to swap the cassettes over and chuck it on the bike. Turns out its a bit of a fiddle and needs clever tools. The lbs said they wouldn't be able to help til Tuesday due to staff being off.
Are Evans/cycle surgery capable of doing this, ideally I need my bike back in working order on Monday!
Alternatively if anyone has a way of doing the job without the tools that would be amazing.
Canyon AL Ultimate 9.0
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In your garage/shed/kitchen with a chain whip and a cassette lockring tool, easy 5 min job, see here:
http://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-hel ... el-removal
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It may be sacrilege to some on here - but - Halfords will have all the tools you need and are open Sundays .... If you find a friendly branch that arent busy they may do it for you as its a 5 minute job.0
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Yeah it's a job even a monkey would struggle to balls up!
where are you based? If you're close you can bring it around and I'll do it for you.
Halfrauds should be safe enough tho.0 -
^^ Same here, if you're near my neck of the woods bring it round my house with a cheap bottle of red, I'll do it for you.Summer - Canyon Ultimate CF SLX 9.0 Team
Winter - Trek Madone 3.5 2012 with UDi2 upgrade.
For getting dirty - Moda Canon0 -
+1 if your near me happy to do it or let you use the tools If its SRAM OR SHIMANO - as long as you know it's wiggle's fault if anything goes wrong!0
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This was one of the first jobs I learned to do...easier than changing an inner tube IMHO...makes for good cleaning as well
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Yeah it's a job even a monkey would struggle to balls up!
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oh, if you buy a cassette removal tool, best get one with a centre spigot to give more stability during removal... or you could use a cheaper one without and learn a very painful lesson.....0
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Another offer of tools if your near Burton upon Trent i can change it for you.FCN 3/5/90
