Smack That Ass

Hi all

well as i promised i am going to tell you the long day.... days of trying to remount a rear wheel on the ghetto

for some background info, i took everything off the ghetto, derailer wheel and took the wheel apart.

when i had the ghetto apart for the frist time, thats when i got my road bike, or my newer older road bike, that bike has an 8mm screw down axle on the rear. and i wanted a quick release for it. so my bright idea was to change the axles on the hubs. long story short didnt work

even longer story short, lost some parts in the process
what happened, i was talking on the phone with a girl that i was trying to date
in the end i got lots parts and no dating!

so moven on, after taking off the wheel and all the components of the reat trinagle of the ghetto i decided it was finally time to put her back together

not really thinkinen things through i just poped stuff back on
my chain was not tight
only one side of the quick relase was holding
with a huge space on the other side of the axle
and the wheel would not center!

after strugling for about.... 2 hours
still on the phone, thistime with sarah
i decided to take a step back and look

thats what i did

this is what i came up with

the space was due to removing the derailer hanger
i needed to some how close a gap with another spacer
i needed to change out a spacer to get the axle to fit right
the frame needed to be sanded down to pull the axle more back to pull the chian tight
and finally
i needed to make sure the axle could be straight to center the wheel

this is what i did
took out file
filed down the inside of the rear left axle mount so the axle could slide more to the rear, put a differnt spacer on the inside of the axle and then put a spacer on the out side of the frame to hold the quick release then pulled the axle back tightened the chain and boom we are done

how ghetto did this come out you ask?

having a spacer on the out side of the bike frame..... ghetto
filing the frame down.... ghetto
pulling the axle to tighten the chain insted of a chain tenisenor... super ghetto
and finally.... to center the wheel moven the axle round and round till it was where i thought it was good...... time to ge the pads out ghetto!!!

so there you go
after that i adjusted the breaks to work on the rear
pumped the tire up to 45... 50 psi
put the fork on the stairs and tired to ballence on it
did a track stand kinda
and it worked

by this time it was 0100 am!

next i will tell you how to use an old derailer to use as a make shift chain tensioner

only and engieer could think of this!!!!!

squid out
and remember keep safe, play hard and ride you bike in the snow!