Adventure Bike Rider Forum

Nickw909 wrote:

bond_yzf wrote:

Crossrutted wrote:Or buy a sensibly designed bike (such as a KTM) where the spacers are interchangeable

yeah the only reason ktm do that is they know most ktm owners are thick as f**k :laugh:

OI !!!! I resemble that remark!!!


Nick.

ah your obviously the exception nick

Crossrutted wrote:

bond_yzf wrote:

Crossrutted wrote:Or buy a sensibly designed bike (such as a KTM) where the spacers are interchangeable

yeah the only reason ktm do that is they know most ktm owners are thick as f**k :laugh:

presumably you have a large KTM stable?

Actually, some KTM owners are surprisingly capable, for example I can now tie my own shoelaces......

na im sensible enough to know better (thumbs)

The problems not the way round !!! it's keeping the FCUKER in place

Captive Spacers. The 18" wheel I've now got in my Tenere has them fitted and putting the wheel back suddenly becomes very easy

Seem the way to go but i take it you have Excel rims or the like .....big bucks but knowing me i'll twat both the ome wheels sooner or later and end up buying excels

By the way got a WHOLE 6000 kms out of the EO7 :blink:

Slide the spacers onto the spindle so you don't crush them then put a series of deep dots in them with a centre punch. The small area directly around each punch mark will lift and once you've got about 6 equally spaced dots around the spacer it'll suddenly be a much tighter fit.

Failing that glue them in place with a low strength Loctite because you only need to remove them when you're changing bearings and a small amount of heat will kill the Loctite when you need to do that job.

A little dab of grease seems to hold them in fine for me when putting the wheel back on

you should have said i could have popped over and changed them for you (thumbs)

get your place sold and buy some thing down here Tony, still finding trails after 10 years (thumbs)

Loctite......good thinking Batman , ive got a 525 chain kit on the way so will do that when the wheels back out , it's either that or grow a third arm :woohoo:

Crossrutted wrote:

bond_yzf wrote:

Crossrutted wrote:Or buy a sensibly designed bike (such as a KTM) where the spacers are interchangeable

yeah the only reason ktm do that is they know most ktm owners are thick as f**k :laugh:

presumably you have a large KTM stable?

Actually, some KTM owners are surprisingly capable, for example I can now tie my own shoelaces......

Yes, but the laces are not supposed to tie the shoes together... :laugh:

PHILinFRANCE wrote: get your place sold and buy some thing down here Tony, still finding trails after 10 years (thumbs)

Loctite......good thinking Batman , ive got a 525 chain kit on the way so will do that when the wheels back out , it's either that or grow a third arm :woohoo:

Give it a go. I used to hate putting the rear wheel back into my Tenere and usually put a small bottle jack under the sump guard to jack it up to a point where I didn't have to lift the wheel to put it in but that doesn't work when you're away from home and don't have a bottle jack handy.

I have the same problem with my tenere. The only answer I found was. To slacken the chain right of and then the wheel goes back on easily.

Mike