How to install rear mech converter (I know, I know...)

[ThePowster]

Evening Guru's.

OK bit fed up this evening, well more frustrated at the lack of knowledge than owt.

So I have this rear mech converter here, thought I would install it tonight and put the new rear mech on, but it is not as straight forward as it seems.

Some pics might explain it better....









Now I am hoping I did it wrong because when I went to put the wheel in the drops it was all cockeyed and pushed to one side, when I looked closer it was because this mech converter is taking up about 10mm of the drops on the drive side but the non drive side is still clear so it cannot sit flush.

I can't see any other way how this installs?

Helllllllllp !

Thanks

 

[legrandefromage]

the wheel isnt meant to sit right back in the dropouts

just line it up straight using the new mech hanger as a guide.

frames further up the food chain have adjuster to line everything up

 

[legrandefromage]

you may be able to find one of these for the other side

 

[ThePowster]

Lovely, thank you for that legrandefromage

 

[Sand_Dune]

I may have been doing it wrong all of these years but....

The rear wheel remains on the rearstays (stays on the stays sounds odd) via a friction fit resulting from the nuts or the quickrelease mechanism compressing the whole assembly along the axis of the rear axle.

Assembly....
The RHS; bring it back to the dropout hangar stop. In contrast the LHS.....(this is the bit you are asking about).... you can bring it back and forth which affects the alignment of the wheel. tighten when you have the correct alignment.

Any other form of mechanical stop is not required.

The irony is....

the flaw you point out in your original post is in fact a design feature in the older bicycles anyways.


Sand_Dune

 

[Woz]

Re:

Interesting. At least the gear cable stop is still intact on the chainstay.

Was this yet another molested frame from the fixie boom?