SECTION F: WHEELS, REMOVING AND REFITTING.
If the brakes are properly adjusted and the tyre is well inflated when removing or fitting a wheel,
you won't be able to move the tyre past the brake pads. One way round this is to deflate the tyre:
alternatively, loosen the cable adjustor (if it's possible) or remove a brake pad.
Front wheel.
To remove, undo and remove the nut and washer on the left hand end of the axle, move the hook
(and mudguard stay) out of the way, and detach the special LH tab washer. Slacken the RH nut,
disengage the tab washer and remove the wheel (see note below).
To replace, follow the above in reverse, making sure that each tab washer engages the hole near
the fork end, and that the axle remains seated against the end of each slot while you tighten the
wheel nuts: torque 15NM.
Notes:
1. If the front wheel has not been removed for some time, you may find, on undoing the second of
the two nuts that the axle starts to turn with the nut so that the nut cannot be slackened off. If this
happens, re-tighten both nuts, then slacken and retighten the right hand nut a few times till it turns
easily on the axle; partially re-tighten this nut and then slacken the left hand nut, and finally undo
the RH nut again.
2. The LH tab washer is special: do not swap it with the RH tab washer.
Rear wheel.
Move the gear trigger(s) up to high gear and, in order to engage the high gear(s), move the
pedals forward and backwards. Park the bike.
Removing the chain tensioner, fig AR3.
For a hub gear, the control has to be disconnected: press the spring clip C on the adjustor A, and
withdraw it from the end B of the gear indicator; the indicator chain GICH will be left hanging
loose from the end of the axle and should be unscrewed from the hub and withdrawn.
Move the sprung arm, CTARM, anti-clockwise and lift the chain off: allow the CTARM to move
back clockwise until it comes to a stop; undo the securing nut CTN and remove it together with its
washer. The chain tensioner assembly may now be removed by drawing it sideways, off the end
of the axle (if a derailleur is fitted, it has to be tilted to clear the changer).
