Saturday, April 13, 2013

Doh!

Finally went to put my new wheels on yesterday and found that I didn't have the correct Torx bit to pull the rotors off the old wheels. I'm sure I had a set of bits somewhere but they must have gone walkabout. Luckily Mud Cycles in Karori are just down the road and swapped them right over for me :) I then put the cassette on the rear wheel and one of the new Maxxis Minion DHF's. Went to put the wheel on the bike and found the end cap is missing on one side..WTF?

Something missing here


The hub is a 10x135 QR so should look more like the other side

Drive side of M1-121 Hub 10x135QR




So this was slightly annoying seeing as I hadn't noticed before putting the tyre and cassette on. At this stage I searched the whole house for this little part to no avail (how many times did I look in the empty box!). My guess is that it was never there...I'm sure it didn't just fall out (maybe). I went back to Mud Cycles this morning and they kindly swapped the rotor back to the old wheel for me. I then emailed Chain Reaction Cycle and asked if they could send the missing end cap (I think that's what it's called anyway). Hopefully this doesn't turn into a fight!

So I put the cassette and new tyre on the old wheel and put it back on along with the new front wheel and tyre. Running odd wheels shows you mean business!


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