Great point, Ryan. Between groceries, bikepacking, and the rocks in my skull, there's a wee bit of load to be had on the axle. Grin. A wee load for wee jaunts. Double grin.
With abandon, Patrick On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 10:02:23 AM UTC-6, Ryan Fleming wrote: > > I guess they'll take a look at your wheel, but another explanation (more > likely for a conventional old-school freewheel hub) could be a bent axle. I > know you haul home lots of groceries so that could be a possibility. > Apparently cartridge bearings can be obtained from a good bearing supply > house...but I know I ordered bearings from SJS Cycles for my freewheel > Mavic 501 hub and had them installed at a local LBS who managed to > misplace the Mavic rear skewer. Wasn't too happy about that , but shops get > busy and I can see how that could happen, I guess. One of the things I got > the shop to check, though, was for a bent axle. Fortunately , the axle was > straight. Only load I carry is moi. > > On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 9:34:57 AM UTC-5, Deacon Patrick wrote: >> >> Great question, Andy! I'll find out toward the end of the month when the >> budget allows. Didn't want to take it in without having funds for the upper >> range of likely possibility, which they thought was $60 for full (4) sealed >> bearing replacement and labor. So it's Quickbeam rides for a month. Talk >> about hardship! Grin. >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 5:09:30 AM UTC-6, ascpgh wrote: >>> >>> Was your LBS able to diagnose your hub, possibly simple as adjusting the >>> axle hardware? >>> >>> Andy Cheatham >>> Pittsburgh >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
