Stretch conversion?
05-17-09, 07:06 AM
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Stretch conversion?
Hi, daughter got a Walmart roadster mnt bike the other day for her birthday and crashed bending back wheel. I have an old Autobike with a good back wheel but it is freewheel. Is there any way to use this good wheel to convert to my daughter's bike? (I know this is a cheap bike but with no work money is hard to come by for a new wheel which costs half the cost of a new bike) Thanks in advance for any advise.
05-17-09, 07:54 AM
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try bending it straight again and tightening the spokes to try to get it as true as you can. I rescued a trashed gary fisher MTB bike because of a hideously bent rear wheel.
It wouldn't get perfectly true, but was nearly perfect and cost nothing to do. Can't hurt to try.
It wouldn't get perfectly true, but was nearly perfect and cost nothing to do. Can't hurt to try.
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thanks i've had that wheel on 2x4's and and spoke wrench
The wheel is so cheap that after the spoke gets to the tope edge of the nipple it begins to twist the hub end and that's the tension area I need to pull back on one particular spot. I have had it on 2x4s and followed as many youtube "unbend and true" videos and I can ride it if the brakes are open without use on the back but I cannot seem to get it more true...so the thought is that the autobike true wheel cannot be substituted if all the garbage of weights and mechanism come off because it is not the same type hub?
thanks
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