Originally Posted by
fuji86
Yeah, I thought about that too, but the bike came assembled that way, that is chain tensioners on the inside and used as a shim/spacer to compensate for chain line and wheel centering. The axle nuts are the type that have the rough mating surface to the frame so it shouldn't move. And I did try to put them on the outside and the fact that the threaded portion extended well beyond the track ends and whatever bend in them caused even more issues. It appears inside is where it functions better.
First, just because the bike came assembled that way from the factory, doesn't mean they did it right. You might as well have gotten it assembled from Wallymart.
Second, part of your problem is those cheap axle nuts that lack built in floating washers. Its basically impossible to tighten those nuts w/o affecting the axle position and chain adjustment. So, get yourself a decent pair of rear axle nuts.
Third, you don't really need axle adjusters / tug nuts. They're just a convenience. I manage just fine to repeatedly adjust the chain on my track racing bikes without any such devices. I did get a Surly tugnut for one of my steel road FG bikes (Kilo WT), but more to just dress it up and cover up all the gouges in the dropout paint from changing the axle position. The main purpose of a tugnut is to "tug" to prevent accidental axle slippage under load, and they are totally unnecessary if the axle nut on the pulling side is sufficiently tight.
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