Spreading rear bike frame (steel)

[DAMIEN1307]

Get an ace bandage around it and take a couple Ibuprofen.

 

[Al Regresar]

I'm not tearing my bike all apart again to show ya from scratch, but I think the pics below should give ya the general idea of how it works, and it works beautifully too...lol.

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Nice visual and method.

 

[GW's Motorized]

What did ya do to yourself now?

Twisted it funny while doing some yard work

 

[darwin]

I'm not tearing my bike all apart again to show ya from scratch, but I think the pics below should give ya the general idea of how it works, and it works beautifully too...lol.

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We want to see the bike taken apart, step by step O'Dear Leader!

 

[DAMIEN1307]

We want to see the bike taken apart, step by step O'Dear Leader!

In a pigs what???...lol...lol...I just put that whole thing back together this weekend,

I saw some Slime start to leak through the bead on the rear tire and considering that the tire and tube has been on there a little over three years now, it was time to change it out since the Slime branded tubes say that the Slime is good for only two years...While I was at it, it was also time to change out the rear disk rotor and brake pads, so of course I did that as well as clean and re-lube the chains as well as totally clean up the whole bike including an R & R of the rear sprocket assembly to clean that up as well...lol.

So if ya think i'm taking all that apart again, your out of your rabbit @$$in mind...lol.

 

[darwin]

"In a pigs what???...lol...lol...I just put that whole thing back together this weekend,"
Sooooo

 

[Chainlube]

This is what I use to stretch out the rear frame on my Hyper beach cruiser...that "rope" you see is actually parachute rip cord from the AFB that I chose because you can't break it under this kind of pressure applied.

You just rap the rip cord around the left side of the rear frame where it drops down to as close to the mag hub as you can get and loop it over the movable part of the Dewalt clamping tool which you can see I reversed the direction of the trigger movable part...As the stationary end is braced against the other side of the rear frame, you just keep pulling the trigger and the rip cord pulls the left side of the frame for me so I can place my mag rim into the drop downs.

(The tool itself is too long in between the rubber pads to fit in between both sides of the rear frame, hence my use of parachute rip cord)

Of course, the mag has to be in position in the wheel well area and this device fits in between the three spokes area in order to do this, I doubt you would be able to use this method with conventional spoke rims.

I also have to use an additional axle nut screwed down on the left side to where it meets the wheel itself with the flat side of the nut facing the dropout so that when I release the pressure off the Dewalt tool, the disk brake rotor will have clearance enough to not come in contact with the frame.

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FYI it's called a pressure/spreader bar clamp.

 

[DAMIEN1307]

FYI it's called a pressure/spreader bar clamp.

I couldn't remember for the life of me what that was actually called...lol.

 

[Chainlube]

I couldn't remember for the life of me what that was actually called...lol.

I saw that. Some are just pressure bar clamps or plain old bar clamp. You got the good ones, that presses and spreads.

 

[DAMIEN1307]

FYI it's called a pressure/spreader bar clamp.

It's a great little device when a set of stretch by "armstrong" manpower isn't available to help ya out on a given day...getting the whole assembly out of the dropdowns is never the problem, it's getting it back in the dropouts again thats the real problem, either without someone to help, or that little device adapted for an entirely different use than it was designed for...lol.