flimflam_machine
Devout Dirtbag
Ok, this may seem like a bizarre call for help to you old hands, but I was brought up on MTBs with vertical dropouts. Frankly, horizontal dropouts on geared bikes just baffle me, they seemed designed to introduce error into the tracking of your rear wheel.
Anyhoo... I can't get my rear wheel to stay straight. I'm running fairly fat 32-630 (27 x 1 1/4) tyres, which leave only a few mm clearance at the chainstays. I've wound the dropout adjuster screws all the way back to get the wheel further back and maximise this clearance, and I'm using a high quality Allen-bolt QR's which I'm torquing up hard. I'm sure that, when my wheel goes on, the clearance is even between the chainstays. However, pretty soon I start getting tyre rub on the left chainstay. I could take the adjuster screws out completely to get even more clearance but frankly, I'd rather know that my wheel was staying put. So, is there something I'm missing?!
Anyhoo... I can't get my rear wheel to stay straight. I'm running fairly fat 32-630 (27 x 1 1/4) tyres, which leave only a few mm clearance at the chainstays. I've wound the dropout adjuster screws all the way back to get the wheel further back and maximise this clearance, and I'm using a high quality Allen-bolt QR's which I'm torquing up hard. I'm sure that, when my wheel goes on, the clearance is even between the chainstays. However, pretty soon I start getting tyre rub on the left chainstay. I could take the adjuster screws out completely to get even more clearance but frankly, I'd rather know that my wheel was staying put. So, is there something I'm missing?!