[brooksby]

This might be the wrong crowd  but does anyone have any tips on removing the rear wheel from a bike which has road & stirrup brakes, a full chaincase, and a Sturmey Archer three speed hub gears?  Need to patch a hole in the tube, and have no experience of doing that without taking the wheel off…

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[Hirsute]

Just noticed you need the

Just noticed you need the next page too !

 

[brooksby]

<shudder>

[Hirsute]

Found a copy of the new bike

Found a copy of the new bike book (maybe too new !)

Think you will have to remove this chaincase somehow though.

 

[brooksby]

Thanks, hirsute.  I don’t

Thanks, hirsute.  I don’t have the Bicycle Book, only his (much later) City Cycling.

(and believe me that getting just the front wheel off, which involves disassembling the brakes, took two hours, a pentacle, and the sacrifice of an unwilling goat…).

(my wife hit some hedge cuttings and got a double flat).

[Hirsute]

Sounds like a chapter from

Sounds like a chapter from richard’s bicycle book. Might be worth checking the library for an older copy.

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