Originally Posted by
jimmuller
A fair question. When I pull the rear wheel off I shift to the smallest sprocket, loosen the skewer, pop the wheel forward in the DOs, then while lifting the bike pull the RD back by the parallelogram until the FW clears the guide pulley. The allows the wheel to fall free. Putting the wheel back in is pretty much the reverse.
Hooking the chain on the hanger requires that I get a hand greasy (I've tried moving it with a tire iron but I must be clumsy, and then the chain has more tension and less clearance.
The only real problem I usually have is the chain falling off the chain rings when I lay the bike down. I sometimes end up with a greasy hand anyway, but I'm I'm smart I don't.
Maybe I need to rethink my technique. But hey, I've had lots of practice!
You do have to get used to slightly tilting the wheel to the left as you pull it back and out of the frame, for the drive side end of the axle and quick release nut to clear the derailleur while pulling back on the derailleur. I'm so used to doing this that it just happens in one motion for me.....many years of practice too, I guess. That's really the only thing that can slow you down taking the wheel off, using the chain peg.
I find them so essential that I've installed on all my CF C&V bikes have, a clipped on version of the peg which is more like a hook. Does not work quite,as well as the brazed on peg on my steel bikes, as the hook tends to turn on the stay from the chain's tension, but still a better situation than having my chain's dangling and banging around when the rear wheel is off, and keeps the chain on the front rings, so there's no messing around up front needed to be done.