Kids bike maintenance - Bike Forum

Re: Kids bike maintenance

timoth27 — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 22:34:27 +0000

Ok my bad, never done one myself but after seeing that vid (just been given a trials bike) I thought it could be useful as they use an old chain instead of crushing the sprocket in a vice like suggested above. Just thought it might be a bit less destructive. (Watch the whole vid)

Re: Kids bike maintenance

reeksy — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 20:22:56 +0000

I changed one over from a bent wheel recently. I used a punch in one of the two holes to loosen it off. Pretty easy in the end, bit it took some googling to confirm I was doing the correct thing.

Re: Kids bike maintenance

JoeG — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:48:55 +0000

timoth27

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Watch this, you don’t have to ruin the sprocket.

Yes he does. The OP's freewheel does not appear to have any means for using a freewheel removal tool. I've seen these on kids bikes before.

Re: Kids bike maintenance

timoth27 — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 17:19:11 +0000

Watch this, you don’t have to ruin the sprocket. http://www.youtube.com/v/LvgXUWsWaic

Re: Kids bike maintenance

jaylittle — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 16:38:44 +0000

As mentioned cheap to replace, used a vice to crush/lock the old one and turned the wheel to remove it.

Re: Kids bike maintenance

junglistjut — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 16:17:35 +0000

Screwdriver in the hole and tap with a hammer ?

Re: Kids bike maintenance

Scienceofficer — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 16:07:13 +0000

I'm no sure you can open those. Pin spanner may lift the front off, or vice to get it off the hub. Vice will utterly wreck it, but ai guess it's playing up anyway. Pretty cheap just to screw a new one on.

Re: Kids bike maintenance

binman — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 15:50:16 +0000

Yes, the image works. It was a long time ago, but I think that it unscrewed from the hub with the aid of a vice (hold the cog in a vice and unscrew by turning the wheel), but hopefully someone who really knows will be along with some wisdom.

Re: Kids bike maintenance

trailwagger — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 15:41:09 +0000

Anyone able to confirm if the image link works please?

Kids bike maintenance

trailwagger — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 14:48:15 +0000

How do I get into this bad boy? https://photos.app.goo.gl/FaRDFFuRQCFrRwUk7 Hopefully that photo works....