How to Check Bicycle Wheels: Part 2

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Pretty much a standard design item, like an open end wrench except that it's narrow enough to slip into the tool surface here on the inside of the wheel that is actually the cone. The tool surface that this is engaging in is the part of the hub that is actually rubbing up against ball bearings inside the hub and you'll need one of these and you will need a standard open end wrench that will fit the lock nut on the outside. Most hub lock nuts are seventeen millimeters, most front hubs are thirteen millimeter cone for the inside, on the rear mostly is a seventeen millimeter on the outside and a fifteen for the cone. So, in adjusting a hub using cone wrenches and open end wrenches it's a fairly straight ahead operation, however, I would recommend that owning just the tools is not the best way to just start going into this, you should find some resources that are illustrated in terms of what to do to take a hub apart and overhaul it. Most of the time when something needs to be adjusted due to age or dirt infiltration it does require disassembly, cleaning and reassembly which is a non operation that we're going to undertake right now. Again, having the tools is half the battle.

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