The drive side has a little extra piece of metal that the non-drive side doesn’t have. How do I make sure it’s evenly seated? And while we are here why is it designed this way? Thanks!
by learn-nthings
The drive side has a little extra piece of metal that the non-drive side doesn’t have. How do I make sure it’s evenly seated? And while we are here why is it designed this way? Thanks!
by learn-nthings
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Seat the drive-side first, do up the nut, and put the non-drive-side nut on loosely. Then just align the wheel by eyeball so that the tyre looks about even distance from each chanstay, and do up the nut.
This dropout is an intermediate step between the old “semi-horizontal” dropouts which allow you to adjust the wheel position back and forth (either to set the chain tension when running single speed or to fine-tune old derailleurs with no B-pivot adjustment) and newer vertical dropouts which fix the wheel in an “optimum” position. With the old style you only have your eyes to guide you and it’s usually good enough. With the design you have the wheel position is fixed but you can in theory cut/file out the extra material to allow for adjustment if you need it. It’s a bit silly if you ask me, the worst of both worlds!
Assuming the sides are parallel tighten the filled in side first this will make it mostly perpendicular to that side then tighten the other side without moving it too much