How do I install this strap?
June 2, 2017 3:11 PM Subscribe
I bought a "Dutch-style" strap for my bike rack a while ago, and I'm finally getting around to installing it. Except I don't know how.
The strap is similar to this, with a bracket that is supposed to be mounted to the quick release skewer. I'm very confused about how I'm supposed to do that. How does it get installed in such a way that I can remove the wheel later? I feel like this should be easier than I'm making it out to be.
The strap is similar to this, with a bracket that is supposed to be mounted to the quick release skewer. I'm very confused about how I'm supposed to do that. How does it get installed in such a way that I can remove the wheel later? I feel like this should be easier than I'm making it out to be.
I think the brackets are mostly meant for non-quick-release axles, where you can unthread the nuts on each side of the wheel, put the bracket on each end of the thread poking out, and rethread the nuts back on.
You can still do this with a quick-release skewer, but you may have to take the wheel off of the bike, and then the skewer out of the rear hub altogether, take off the nuts on the side opposite the handle. Then you would thread one of the metal brackets in, insert the skewer into the hub, thread another metal bracket onto the skewer, screw the nuts back on, and then install the wheel back on the bike.
posted by suedehead at 3:42 PM on June 2, 2017
You can still do this with a quick-release skewer, but you may have to take the wheel off of the bike, and then the skewer out of the rear hub altogether, take off the nuts on the side opposite the handle. Then you would thread one of the metal brackets in, insert the skewer into the hub, thread another metal bracket onto the skewer, screw the nuts back on, and then install the wheel back on the bike.
posted by suedehead at 3:42 PM on June 2, 2017
Alternately if you're handy you could cut a piece out of the brackets so that they slide on/off the quick release axle: http://imgur.com/ZKsHOiu
posted by suedehead at 3:46 PM on June 2, 2017
posted by suedehead at 3:46 PM on June 2, 2017
If your rack bolts to the dropouts or the stays, I can see no reason to attach the strap to the quick-release, anyway: just get a couple of sufficiently large washers and use the bolts of your rack.
posted by jamjam at 4:14 PM on June 2, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by jamjam at 4:14 PM on June 2, 2017 [3 favorites]
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This image seems to make it a bit clearer? One side of the strap goes on each side, skewer goes through the whole thing, tighten as normal.
posted by asperity at 3:21 PM on June 2, 2017 [1 favorite]