Timeline for Maintenance for a single speed bike
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| Sep 12, 2014 at 12:01 | vote | accept | UXerUIer | ||
| Sep 11, 2014 at 18:46 | comment | added | stranger | I agree. It's common (particularly on lower end bikes/wheels) that the wheels need to be adjusted once (or several times) after riding for a little while. As the wheel flexes and shifts, spokes loosen up. You have to keep dialing them in until this process stops. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 18:27 | comment | added | Batman | Its a Walmart level bike - it isn't surprising that the wheel has to be trued. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 17:01 | comment | added | PeteH | Well, day-to-day care would really just involve keeping the tyres up and the chain clean & lubed. These steps will maximise the lifetime of drivetrain components, although of course everything will wear out eventually. I'm surprised you ended up having to true a wheel, it really isn't all that common, I suspect in your case it was never true i.e. put together poorly. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 16:50 | comment | added | UXerUIer | For all of the places you said that should be maintained, is there any specific actions I should be taking to make sure it's being maintained properly? | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 16:50 | comment | added | UXerUIer | My old bike need the front wheel to be trued maybe a month after I used it. It puzzled me how it got so bent out of shape like that in just the first month. Thankfully, after getting it trued (not by myself), it was fine. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 16:45 | history | answered | PeteH | CC BY-SA 3.0 |