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Bike maintenance
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I realise I'm getting all my domestic jobs advice here at the moment, sorry guys!
Cycling seems to be much harder work recently, so I assumed I had a soft tyre. Tyre seems fine, but the back wheel of the bike seems to wobble slightly side to side. Not noticibly so when cycling, just when you lift the back wheel off the ground and try to wobble it.
While I'm an engineering student, and can change tyres/inner tubes/repair punctures etc quite happily, the subtlties of wheels are currently slightly beyond me.
My google efforts have come up with all kinds, as you can guess, bike wheel wobble isn't particularly specific!
Any suggestions?
It's got quick release wheels, which I haven't adjusted in a long while, but would be surprised if I can get them any tighter, could get one of the boys from uni to have a go.
Cycling seems to be much harder work recently, so I assumed I had a soft tyre. Tyre seems fine, but the back wheel of the bike seems to wobble slightly side to side. Not noticibly so when cycling, just when you lift the back wheel off the ground and try to wobble it.
While I'm an engineering student, and can change tyres/inner tubes/repair punctures etc quite happily, the subtlties of wheels are currently slightly beyond me.
My google efforts have come up with all kinds, as you can guess, bike wheel wobble isn't particularly specific!
Any suggestions?
It's got quick release wheels, which I haven't adjusted in a long while, but would be surprised if I can get them any tighter, could get one of the boys from uni to have a go.
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I'll ask the guys in the department tomorrow but with a project deadline Wednesday pm I'm unlikely to get much help 'til Thurs afternoon.
The next possibiliy is, like you said, something to do with the quick release, if their not clamping the wheel on evenly I think it could cause it to wobble.
I might be totally wrong though as its being a long time since I was on a push iron brrrrrrrrrrr I'll stick to my toasty car.
Handily my baby brother came up to visit and has done something to the back bearing. Didn't replace anything, just took it apart, removed some of the crud and tightened bits up. Seems much better now.