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Reid Welch

Reid Welch

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The cops say that she never struck my bike, this morning, as she ran a stop sign, exiting the McDonald's parking lot.
So 'they' (the lead police sargeant) says, in effect: "You just got scared and fell off".

They are incorrect. Falling off a bike at four or six-per does not taco a wheel.
I was STRUCK DOWN.

Now that it is daylight and I am feeling bruised (was not really hurt),
I can SEE the damage, and just how it happened: T-bone at low speed, impact to the rear wheel,
including the left side axle-end.

Clickable, and from there, can be enlarged to a 1mb size if desired.
That white plastic shaving then fell off, just after the picture was taken a few minutes ago,
dang the luck! It is spall from her WHITE car's plastic front-end.




Do you concur, that this wheel can be fixed? Re-rim? Spokes salvageable, or do I need to get an entire new Lime wheel?
I only want my LIME fixed, and nothing more. I want to ride it again, and soon.

She has "no money", looks like a living doll, age 21, works as a waitress, goes to uni, drives a new car...has insurance...
a mom and a dad...
...but the cops would not deign to charge her with striking a bicyclist.
No citation. No accident report would be issued.

I have to rely on her promised good will to make good.
I have no other recourse than that, at this point.

I am not a happy camper this AM.
The bike was running so very sweetly, too, and thank goodness,
all this was at low speed: myself on the sidewalk at a trot-pace,

her, eating her fries and not thinking about pedestrians
or cyclists on the sidewalk; a sidewalk flanking IMPOSSIBLY dangerous to ride upon, busy, US1.

Images. The bit of white plastic from her front bumper, seen on the left axle end,
has just fallen off, and is lost on that brick pavement, damn the bad luck that that "proof" is now gone.

But there will be a "dig" in her ABS front bumper,
plus, unless she auto-polishes, there are slight black marks: the marks of a Hank rubber tire.

She did not deny, to me, that she struck my bike and caused the tumble.
The cops arrived upon my request, sequestered her from me, and made up a "scenario", false.

The cops issued no citation (I did not really care for them to do so),
but I have not a paper or proof in the world, other than these photos,
no "receipt", no way to contact the pretty young thing whom they let go.

Waiting for a Coral Gables accident investigator to come out here and chew the facts with me. :|
Prediction: no-one will come. No phone calls will be returned. I'll be nice about this, to a point, then...

Q: I can take side-view pictures. IF we can fix this by just replacing the rim: great.
I do not see any frame damage. But one of the anti-twist round-head screws, is bent ajar (can be straightened).

Advice for the cheapest, safe, fix? I have no experience with tacos before today.

"You just fell off the bike, that's all that happened. She never touched you."
:|

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Thanks for any positive inputs regarding possibility of repair, rather than outright replacement of the wheel.
 
Jesus Ried, What do you do, ride around trusting cars not to hit you? If she did contact your bike, there will be a mark on her car, for sure, however small. A bike can be laid down hard enough to taco a wheel, I did it once, to avoid hitting a stupid young lady that stepped off a sidewalk into my path.

Start riding like they are all trying to kill you. THEY ARE. People stop and wave my in front of them, I ride around thier back. Trust nobody in a car.
 
dogman said:
Jesus Ried, What do you do, ride around trusting cars not to hit you? If she did contact your bike, there will be a mark on her car, for sure, however small. A bike can be laid down hard enough to taco a wheel, I did it once, to avoid hitting a stupid young lady that stepped off a sidewalk into my path.

Start riding like they are all trying to kill you. THEY ARE. People stop and wave my in front of them, I ride around thier back. Trust nobody in a car.
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You are so right, DM.

I should'a learned that lesson at eight when the man backed out of his driveway without looking.
Me and Huffy came apart, but no harm.

Just back from the bike shop.
Wheel: cannot be repaired, the rim seems to be quite unique.
For sure, the hub is a die casting and is totally unique and totally, strangely stressed.

The taco was her bumper SLAMMIN' that wheel. And yes, there were black marks on her white paint.
And I know now that no matter how she polishes off the tire marks, there will be a teeny weeny scratch in the white ABS
or whatever it is, that corresponds to the picture.

She will pay, I think, willingly. We shall see. The police work slowly, especially when they've decided that the bicyclist, he done "faw down" in "fwont" of a car, "caws" he be nevis or sumptin'.

Live and learn and die. Preferably in that order, though, so far I am striking oink...out.

Thank you truly, sir, though for your always kind and gentle digs at this asholio.
I pucker up for dogman posts. :twisted:s

Wheel assembly only comes from Trek, complete, cost 197 and change plus Fl. slays tax.
GIANT sells the Suede DX, identical system; I should check on the rim size.
I just about betcha' Misters, that their retail price for that wheel is higher :roll: than Trek's.
Why? It costs more to Beijing than to Water the Loo. :roll:
 
OK, time for a name revision. I hope I do not have to keep doing this Reid! :lol:

Ol' Blood, Flames, and Front Bumper Welch.
 
Yesterday and last night I was feeling remarkably like my old, normal, energetic self.

Had a lot of frustration, though, because WMM keeps getting shut off by the Vista "DEP" feature.
Anyone know how to really shut it off? I've tried to follow online directions, but get lost.

Why? Because I am Asholierthanthou! :lol:

ADMIN: please to give me a "legend" under my real name?
Nothing would be finer
than to wake in a va
ginier in the mor-nin!

Yrs,

ASHOLIERTHANTHOU
(that would be my secondary moniker)


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Anyway, it's about 4Am and the last attempt to "Publish Movie" has failed.
The Lime is in perfecto condition. It is sooooooo sweet to ride, especially with the new Thudbuster.

I have no wind, no bicycle legs yet, but I got about six miles.
Night time here is the quiet time: NO CARS, especially on residential streets.

And then I approach the CVS pharmacy. McDonalds must be passed first.
I have to be on the sidewalk, because US1 is a majorly dangerous artery.

I have a Planet Bike white blinky on front.
In my left hand I wave and waggle about, an LED tactical flashlight of about 100 lumens.

I see the young, pretty girl pulling away from her McOrder. I shine the light in her eyes; just a waggle.
A french fry lights up her pretty white teeth. She really is a nice girl. We've made eye contact!

She's going slow enough, and so am I. Eye contact.

DID NOT MATTER. She failed to stop at the lot's BIG RED stop sign,
and crossed onto the sidewalk, and T-boned my rear wheel.

I was so very, very lucky, to only have some minor bruises and paint scrapes.
I will not charge her for loss of the use of my bike, nor "pain and suffering"
at the hands of dubious policemen.

One cop, though, was decent. THEY ALL said "tough for you buddy. You shouldn't fall off your bike in front of a stopped car."
I paraphrase, because they did not =all= say that.

I am sick and shaky and need to sit down on the curbing, and quaver.

"Just ride your bike home".

"It won't roll, SIR."

"Well, then call a cab."

"I have no money, SIR."

"Well, call home then?"

"He's 78 years old, asleep, and does not need to be shocked to death."

"Can any of you give me a ride home? I can leave the bike with my pal-workers at the CVS; they all know me."

"What do you think we are, a taxi company?"

"No, I think you are four or so police cruisers and cops milling about, comforting Miss Nice Young Girl,
not about to give me any receipt or any card or any proof that any of this ever happened."
(I did not really say that, but they knew I was thinking it).

AMAZING: One police OFFICER, a genuine "serve and protect man" brightened, took pity on me:

"Let's lay your bike in the back of my stuffed trunk, lid open, and I'll run you home."

I forget his exact name, but it starts with letter "C". He's a great cop. Not all cops are hardened by their work.
Some are virtual angels. NO WAY I could have walked a mile and a half home in my condition, carrying a 20-something pound bike
with one wheel that won't roll.

I do appreciate kind people. The girl who hit me instantly apologized and offered to do her best to make amends,
without invoking her insurance and all that jazz. I think she will come through.
She really is a nice person: a photo journalism student. I wish her well.
I wish for a new rear LIME wheel, too. :p
 
Sorry Reid, I meant to remind you the other day to be extra careful since bad things tend to come in 3's. Police beating, over the bars crash, and now the Mickey D's dump. Glad you're ok, and glad I'm not accident prone.

John
 
Awake again, having needed some real sleep, having been sleepless since all day and all night yesterday: busy
doin' the reid thing: photo-dorkin' everything he does because...why do I write so much documentation of non-important stuff?

Philosophy again: It's in my actual "blood". Drew drew words forth. P.B. made cool air in his spare time, and sewed wounds
for his vocation. I no longer have a vocation. I, i, always "i"....overload this forum because I have so little real life anymore.

No more piano tuning requests are accepted. Can't do that work anymore. Can't apply for a minimum wage job. All is...a stripping
of this person's manhood; his former ability to provide for himself and for the ones he loves.

So I write for escape and I document hundreds of little-nothing things on YT under my various account names there.
So I am like that Drew fellow in some ways, but, I am a failure.
I am a people-person, yet I withdraw from more than nominal contact with others.
I, I, I, had no nice mother, was never held or rocked. "MY SON IS A THEIF".

I woke up a few minutes ago, about fifteen, and was crying. Betty Kessler is dead. SHE would have helped me from my recent messes,
not by "pulling strings", she was like Judge Judy, but just as tender as ever she was tough. I could write a book about the amazing people I've been so privileged to meet and cross paths with.

The Lime is indeed an Edsel of all bikes ever built. This is an unfortunate fact. It is too late to save it for the market.
Shimano messed up. Market-targeters are idiots, usually. QC does not understand the basics. Workers do as they are told.

Again, let's go to Coral Way Bike Shop (since 1942 in the very same building-room).

Everything above and below that I may quote mark, is really a paraphrase.

Ramon, and you know him from the bike shop portrait?

"jesus!reid, what happened!"

I told him. "Quote me the regular price just like you'd quote to anyone who comes off the street."

"Maybe we can re-rim it and that will cost near to nothing in comparison...let me make some calls."

Ramon is busy. They are always busy there. After fifteen minutes, comes a lull. I occupy myself with bells, whistles and
cable locks I won't be buying.

Ramon, on the phone to person A, then person B, then person C, "Well, it's a 28 hole unbranded rim but it like a XXX rim, but it has this or that" (I don't know all the lingo).

Point: Ramon did his competent best, as always, to try to find a rim-alone, that he might relace the wheel.
No go. And on further inspection it becomes more clear, that the frame, though only lightly scratched and hardly marked (a torn grip),
is going to want an entire new rear wheel assembly. It's probably made by Shimano, the whole kaboodle.
The hub's shell is not like any other Shimano three speed. So we have to get the part, the entire wheel, from Trek.
A phone call again, long distance. "You have one? OK send it."

"Do you want payment now or a deposit, Ramon?"

"No, Reid. Just pay us cash when it comes; we don't take AMEX anymore, the rates are too high and some wrangles recently..."

OK. So when the wheel comes in ten days or so, I will install it all myself. THEY would install it for free.
I want to do it myself.

If Miss Young Lady elects to not pay the cost of the part: Ernie is that much deeper in debt, all because of me.
I can't even toss fries for a living.

Last night was the most beautiful bike ride of my life, and it was non-electric,
but it was electric. I could feel the warm Florida summer night rub my flesh.
I could sense that my weak body IS going to get stronger. I went all those miles.

Snick, snick, snick, says the LIME as it auto up-shifts and down, at exactly the times I prefer.

Why does the LIME shift so well? See my new siggie below? There is the answer, SHIMANO and TREK.

Coral Way Bike Shop still has =the other non-selling= Lime on display, lost among the plethora of regular bikes.

I gave that Lime deluxe the now-known FACTORY STANDARD test: lift the front wheel and SPIN the wheel briskly.
LIME should audibly shift from first to second gear. But no: this LIME is JUST LIKE MINE WAS: it does not work!
The pot is set at "N", which, given that the cable pull mechanism is out of adjustment, "N" might as well stand for NO shifting.

Point: people make errors. Companies make errors. To succeed we all must sort-of correct our errors.

I would not sell my LIME for a thousand bucks, it is that good and delightful to ride...except...now
the video is bro-ken.

(a quote of HartfordTommy, who is Reid, of course, giving his famous :roll: Electric Bike Video Review.

Fun? Laugh? Pooooor Tommy. Clueless idiot. There's a lot of him in me too.
 
Postby Reid Welch » Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:12 am
Humor break again. In the old thread
when the bike was first put over to 36V
and the first version blower was fitted,
my cousin Hartford Tommy made a video review of the bike's upgraded performance.
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"Hartford Tommy" is me :shock: , impersonating my mate's first cousin, who really did speak just like that.
The impersonation is not a parody, but a recreation of Tommy's actual voice and personality.

What if Tommy did an e-bike review? "But, the video"....

In October, 2006 Tommy gave the then-modified Currie retro cruiser Mongoose a video review.
"But, the video...."
"...turned on the switch...funny sound..."
(the whir of the forced-air fan cooler for the Unite motor of that bike).

http://img99.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sound136kj6.swf
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You all remember, or can look in the archives, to see that bike in "action" (still shots, very electric BLUE).

__________

Fond best to all, Ypedal especially,

Reidasholio Welch

____________________________________________

PS: note that neither Tommy or Reid ever cease repeating themselves.....

See new TAE quote below. Memorize it well? It helps me, it will help you too, when you fry fingers,
not fish fingers, either.
 
Gift to young Mr. Chantry of northern England:
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A dusty twin of the first pendulum clock,
owned by the great, great, great, great
grandson of the inventor of the pendulum

1687, it is so-dated
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see, this one was ours (gone now), and is
exactly of the type and age (but not perfect preservation),
of Odilon's keep. Of his keep. Of his keep. Christian Huygens,
Netherlands born, but also, of, at times, of England, like...Odilon,
born in the Netherlands, now of England, and, the keeper
of the times.




The Clock Of Life

"The clock of life is wound but once,
And no man has the power
To tell just when the hands will stop
At late or early hour.

To lose one's wealth is sad indeed.
Too lose one's health is more.
To lose one's soul is such a loss
That no man can restore."

Today, only is our own.
So live, love and toil with a will.
Place no faith in tommorrow,
For the clock may soon be still.

By Robert H Smith
Copyright 1932, 1982
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http://www.poetry-inspirational.org/theclockoflife.htm
 
Reid,

You're the only guy on the internet that I know of who spams his own threads.

btw, see my previous post here.

John
 
John in CR said:
Sorry Reid, I meant to remind you the other day to be extra careful since bad things tend to come in 3's. Police beating, over the bars crash, and now the Mickey D's dump. Glad you're ok, and glad I'm not accident prone.

John
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Oh, really?
I am fond of you, John; you, too, speak your mind, and can fill a thread.

Good night, all.

r.
 
Reid Welch said:
John in CR said:
Sorry Reid, I meant to remind you the other day to be extra careful since bad things tend to come in 3's. Police beating, over the bars crash, and now the Mickey D's dump. Glad you're ok, and glad I'm not accident prone.

John
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Oh, really?
I am fond of you, John; you, too, speak your mind, and can fill a thread.

Good night, all.

r.
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Reid,

I mouthed off like that and sure enough, blam! Made a quick beer run on Big Blue since my lights are now working, and wasn't deterred by the misty light rain. I took my final turn coming home a bit too fast, and the f'ing front wheel slid out. That was my first time hitting the ground on any 2 wheeler since my father's first push when I was five. Thank goodness that more than not being accident prone I am indestructible, and despite contacting the asphalt flat out with leg, feet (in flip flops), both hands, and face (with no helmet I might add), all that happened was a 1" dia scrape on my knee. I stood up, checked myself, and thought "Damn I'm one lucky mofo". Then I remembered the jinx I put on myself with my previous post. :mrgreen:

John
 
Looks relaceable to me, new rim and spokes would set you up right. Shoot me a PM if your local bike shop doesn't lace wheels.
 
johnrobholmes said:
Looks relaceable to me, new rim and spokes would set you up right. Shoot me a PM if your local bike shop doesn't lace wheels.
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Dear Prince among Mankind. Thank you.

The new wheel is ordered. New spokes would be needed, too, because the old ones have been
A) terribly strained by the taco incident
B) their inboard ends are not hooked 'n headed like normal spokes, but, instead, threaded and square-nutted like...it's Shimano specific. They don't sell spokes alone for this wheel
C) you virtually offered to relace a wheel for me for free.
D) I am floored both physically and emotionally.

EFGHIGKLMNOPQR: Thank you, Mr. Holmes.
I know where I'd put my business if I had business to make with you.

You're the essence of this place, that's what you are.

I'm ill and sorry and off to sleep again. Some days, twenty hours is not enough "sleep",
cos it really is not "sleep", when an SLE feller wakes up feeling worse than before, more tired,
no pain, nothing wrong here...

...yet, amazed and uplifted by the innate decency;
the innate decency of so many people, dear Mr. Holmes.

Yours, faithful,

Watson Welch
 
Posited and fact-presented:

-The Lime wheel is ruined beyond normal means of repair.
-It could never be made "safe", even by re-lacing and re-rimming, even with new spokes,
even if Shimano spokes could be gotten (can't be gotten so far as I know, not easily)
-The die cast aluminum Shimano hub has been stressed, and probably strained;
it could crack at any future time if it were put back into service. Or not. We cannot know.

Fact: a new wheel, complete, is on the way. Ten days should bring it.

Posit: in the meanwhile, let us (royal 'we') take the wheel off of the Lime,
tear it apart from its hub (snip off the spokes), and then, maybe look very closely at the hub casting.

Expected: the hub may show no overt signs of strain-deformation.
A dial caliper will show if it has turned egg-shaped, even to a few thousandths of an inch.

Be that as it may: no deformation of the hub casting,
so-duckin' what! A new wheel is on and in order*

let's tear down the hub in time, using the Coral Way Bike Shop's special tools, as needed.
Otherwise, am sure I can get into it with the old brass drift and hammer technique.

Let's learn what a Shimano hub looks like inside, pictures galore?
How does its coaster brake work?
How does it shift? Etc...

TBC within one week.r.
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*It is a correct policy:

the user crashes and tacos a wheel, then he buys a complete, factory-fresh, certifiably-safe unit.
BECAUSE, after a crash of a vital part...one never can know, can one?
When you think about it, this Shimano/Trek, apparent policy, is correct, both legal-protection of themselves-wise,
and to protect the hapless bike rider whose wheel got crushed by a pretty young woman,
smart as a whip, who merely made an error whilst driving slowly.
No french fry was in her mouth, not really.
Accidents do happen. We have all screwed up, old or young, at some point
(about a thousand times per year)?

The proper remedy: REPLACE the dubious part, period.
 
The old pressure cleaner that we have not started for over a year;
it is going to run again. Ernie wants to blast the black mold from the white pavers out back.

Will get it working, maybe tomorrow.

I am feeling good at this time. Huzzah, boys, huzzah:

the Planet Bike Freddy Fenders for the Lime have just arrived in the day's mail.

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Later tonight (if my energy holds up, and I think it will), OFF comes the taco'd Lime wheel,
on the garage floor (Ern's old car put outside so I can have working room).

We will dissect the wheel in still pictures and post 'em up, the pictures, here.
Some of the spokes will be saved: those spokes that for sure, were not stressed by the accident.
The majority of the spokes will be snipped and thrown away.

We will see and measure and photograph the bare, central hub: the Shimano "Coaster" Inter-Three
internally geared hub; photographed from the outside.

And if, later, before the new wheel assembly arrives,
let's take the old hub apart and see what makes it snick through its gear ranges (tick...tock)?

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cops and robbers
and rubbers and snubbers
and whips and snaps
and C-clips and laps

around the block
and ho(l)mes again.

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Click for very nice, large pictures of one megabite file size, that can be further enlarged.
What a beautiful work of intelligent, original engineering.

Taco sauce, any one? :lol: I need a new right grip, too, or....
just live with the little ripper.

CLICK US ALL, as you like or not?











Now let us get the wheel the rest of the way off.
The other side is simpler yet.

It's all good. You'll see.

This was a wonderful first-foray into the future of self-shifting bikes to come.
Get one and I will guide you through any steps to make it roll and shift like a champion's bike.
It's for gadget oriented guys and girls who KWTADAWTADI :wink:

Shimano "Coasting" may well be a dead duck.
This is the time to buy one and ruffle your feathers
because, the price will be right and you'll never be a follower of leaders.

addendum, correction!

TREK and SHIMANO are two different firms with one common goal: to make the best product at the most reasonable cost. Quality, safety and VALUE are foremost.

This pundit does not know how well that Shimano "COASTING" technology is selling
in the other nine brands (as of 2007) of Shimano & bike-maker-partners.

However, it appears that the Trek iteration is a terrible FLOP.
I can, in the review thread, opine about my reasons for thinking-so.

AT BASIS, the "Coasting" system of Shimano is remarkable and wonderful
for flatland, casual bikers. It was improperly marketed, and a small detail-failure, is all:
and QC did not seem to understand the nature of braided, soft steel cables, that,
under even slight tension...such cable STRETCHES,
even while the bike is in storerooms and showrooms;

the cable on my bike is fully 3mm or, even, 6mm too long
for a usable adjustment to be made. The fix is simple and does not require a new cable.

NONE of the two LBS's Limes operated (shifted) while on the showroom floor.
I doubt that the LBS will be ordering any more Limes, as they DO NOT SELL.
And they don't sell for two reasons: Shimano's poor marketing (fluff stuff),
and that stretching cable and lack of an easily accessible Trek-located "N" re-setting of the cable winder...
...then, too, is the optional-adjustable electronic "pot", also labeled "N", plus click increments:
TREK failed to tell by manual or to the LBS'es, to CHECK these two vital points, pre-sale.

And so, much as I love the brand (long term fan here), TREK is to blame too:
selling a casual bike, but not even marketing it to the general public
in the right and exciting, intelligent way.

Both firms have let themselves down with a THUD.

They have "taco'd" their own product.

Get a new, 2007, LIME EDSEL today.
It really is a wonderful...car. No joke.

'Tis all exactly like the erstwhile, great failure of Ford,
fifty-odd years ago, mis-marketing their famed failure, the Edsel Ford.

PS: Poor, sole/soul son of Our Ford, Edsel Ford; he died very young of bleeding ulcer,
stress caused by 'is failure to live up to daddy's hard-headed demands.
He was a beautiful human being, kind and humanitarian, a beloved father...
and to think, more than ten years after his death, the Company pinned his first name
to the most ignominious failure in automotive history. Poor man! :cry:
They (the firm's workers and designers) all meant so well. Failbread. And death by
road-kill poisoning:

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Trek Tried.
Shimano: it may not be too late.

Ask how?
 
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I seem out of breath because that is reality:
have tried walking instead of biking: lost part-vision in one eye,
"central serous retinopathy", very rare...each episode blinds the right eye further.
No shocks of a brisk walk are wanted; the last time it happened I was on NO anti-hypertensive medication.
Now my BP is normal, for the most part. I do not expect another retina-damaging bout of CSR. Twice is
two times too many. Blurred central field in that right eye. Brain compensates.
Uncorrected vision rates at nearly"20/20", overall...but it ain't: I know the standard eye chart by heart.

I need my bike back on the road, like, as of last week.
Otherwise, I lose the little aerobic capacity I yet retain.
I want to be strong again. So, Ernie is "fronting" the cost of the new wheel.
Meanwhile, I suffer, physically and emotionally. I only want to ride "my" bike,
a love-gift from my invaluable life-partner.

I shall not be taking down the wheel.
I want to keep it for evidence that I did not "fall off" a bike.
I was struck down by a moving vehicle: an innocent accident;
not my fault at all, not at all.

Peace and forgiveness;
it shall be replaced
even if Ernie has to pay for the parts.
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It is so easy to remove and replace a Lime/Shimano rear wheel.
Only three or four simple tools are needed. Not shown: a number two phillips driver.

Stand by?
Nice big clear thumbnails,
click to get the super-close in views of Trek/Shimano quality.

This is no "Edsel", not really:
 
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all images are externally hosted = no load on the E.S. server greater than mere text:












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Learned: the rear wheel spokes are "conventional" hooked-end types.
They are not threaded/nutted as are the front Shimano hub's spokes.

The hub casting appears strong and salvage-able...but not by me,
not when the factory or Trek DO NOT SUPPLY mere rims and spokes for DIY
"fix it up" repairs that could cause accident, injury and lawsuit.

Ergo: we had to order an entire new wheel and hub assembly.
Modest price, considering all the technology that is held within those spokes.
Shimano = quality
Trek = integrity
 
Thanks for taking the time posting pictures Reid.

Is that a rear wheel adjuster mechanism? Similar to the ones on a motorcycle.

I've ordered an internally geared Sram 9speed hub for my ebike, so my interest is sincere.

There is a company that makes "EBB" (eccentric bottom brackets) which have the crank hole, off center, and can adjust the chain tension simply by rotating the bottom bracket, loosening a couple of set screws, instead of the rear wheel nuts. But this EBB set-up is mostly used for diskbrakes, so you don't have to re adjust them.

Sorry about your mishap, could of been much worse, glad to know your okay.
 
HI! Thanks for bearing with old Mooootor Mouth-me :lol:
Replies between your lines. I speak in blue font:
recumbent said:
Thanks for taking the time posting pictures Reid.
T.Y.! I love to "document" everything from nuts (myself),
to baby squirrels fallen from nests.

Is that a rear wheel adjuster mechanism? Similar to the ones on a motorcycle?
Yes, sir! It allows you gain a precise chain-tension adjustment, and true the wheel to the frame.
It is a nice, quality-bike touch of Trek to do this for such a low-cost bike.

I've ordered an internally geared Sram 9speed hub for my ebike, so my interest is sincere.
Internal gear hubs all have their drawbacks: higher frictional losses in some gear-ranges,
but...no fugly, filthy derailleur, and always: a straight chain line. And the these basic hubs,
such as your brand or Shimano's higher-end Inter Eight, are LIGHT in weight, and CLEAN.
I love 'em all....

There is a company that makes "EBB" (elliptical bottom brakets) which have the crank hole, off center, and can adjust the chain tension by simply rotating the bottom bracket by loosening a couple set screws, instead of the rear wheel nuts.
Forrest here :lol: "Simple is as simple does." :)
What we have here, is not the world's end-all of tech,
but simple, proven, easy to deal-with stuff.
And all that I need here in flat Florida, is the cheap, three speed Nexus hub,
which is the heart of this "Coasting" system of Shimano.

Sorry about your mishap, could of been much worse, glad to know your okay.
Oh, thank you for the kind words. I'll get by...(a song is in my hart)
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