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Turbo trainer help

  • 28-01-2012 8:41pm
    #1
    mel.b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭


    I'm having trouble getting my bike back onto the turbo trainer. Can anyone (especially anyone with an Elite turbo trainer) tell me if they have a nut like this (see pic) in the bit that holds the turbo in place? If you do I just need to persit in getting it on, if not I have a mystery on my hands which I will explain more about.
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Comments

  • #2
    Junior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,238 ✭✭✭Junior


    You probably need a different Skewer for your rear wheel..


  • #3
    mel.b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭mel.b


    So that nut shouldn't be there?

    My bike has been on the turbo for the past couple of months and on Sunday I noticed I had a flat tyre. Tues night took the wheel off to take down to the bike shop and while taking the wheel off, noticed that the nut from the left hand side of the bike was missing:eek: Not sure where it went or how it came off. I know for sure it was the left hand side as I can recall I had to move the cable for the derailleur out of the way to undo the nut on the other side. However this nut in the turbo is on the same side as the derailleur (ie. the side that had the nut still in place), yet the bike had fitted on the turbo trainer fine and I had been riding it for the past week before the tyre went flat. So I'm completely stumped as to how I can be missing a nut from the left hand side of my bike and what appears to be the missing nut (as it looks exactly the same) is stuck in the turbo on the right hand side. if that nut was on the left hand side of the turbo I would say it was vibration that caused it to work loose, but this has my stumped.

    Any ideas how to get the nut out of the turbo also?


  • #4
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭lennymc


    that looks like the nut from the skewer - dunno how it got there tho :)
    use a screw driver to gently work it out.
    hope that helps.


  • #5
    victorcarrera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭victorcarrera


    I don't have that particular trainer but your photo and the jammed nut would indicate that it was designed to take a quick release lever and not the axle nuts that you have. So maybe whoever fitted the bike (hybrid I assume) to the trainer in the first place compensated by removing the nut from the left side and put both nuts on the right side to match the width of the lever side of the quick release so that the tyre would sit in the middle of the motor spindle. It could also be the reason for your puncture if the bike was not anchored properly.


  • #6
    mel.b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭mel.b


    victorcarrera wrote: »
    I don't have that particular trainer but your photo and the jammed nut would indicate that it was designed to take a quick release lever and not the axle nuts that you have. So maybe whoever fitted the bike (hybrid I assume) to the trainer in the first place compensated by removing the nut from the left side and put both nuts on the right side to match the width of the lever side of the quick release so that the tyre would sit in the middle of the motor spindle. It could also be the reason for your puncture if the bike was not anchored properly.

    Yes, it's a hybrid bike and that explanation would make sense except i am the one who put the bike in the trainer in the first place.


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  • #7
    victorcarrera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭victorcarrera


    mel.b wrote: »
    Yes, it's a hybrid bike and that explanation would make sense except i am the one who put the bike in the trainer in the first place.

    Did you use a 15mm spanner to fit the bike on the trainer and did you feel the bike wobble when you used it?
    We have identified the problem now we just have to fix the blame. :p
    It could of course have been sabotaged. Are there any disaffected teenagers in the house studying mechanical engineering ? :eek:


  • #8
    mel.b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭mel.b


    victorcarrera wrote: »
    Did you use a 15mm spanner to fit the bike on the trainer and did you feel the bike wobble when you used it?
    We have identified the problem now we just have to fix the blame. :p
    It could of course have been sabotaged. Are there any disaffected teenagers in the house studying mechanical engineering ? :eek:

    No, no spanner used, although it was a bit difficult to get in and line up, but i assumed that was because i had never done it before. Never felt the bike wobble while using it, but then again I don't pedal all that fast:o There's no one else either who could have played with it...it's still a mystery to me:confused:


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