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Problem with my new Schlumpf guni hub?
In a nutshell, one of the crank arms is loose on my (new) Schlumpf guni hub. This is the same problem I had six months ago with my first generation hub. The loose arm is on the downshift-button side. That is the same thing that happened to me last time, if I'm not mistaken. Luckily for me, a fellow member of the NYUC also has a guni from Florian, so he may be able to fix this when I see him tomorrow. If not, I'll have to disassemble the wheel again (that's a lot easier than building it!) and send the newer hub back to Switzerland. I should note that I have not gone down any big curbs (nothing more than a few inches, and only a few times). I think the only strain I put on the guni was while riding up a fairly short hill today in high gear. Blah blah blah: Back in October, my geared unicycle began having problems. On several occasions it slipped out of geared (once causing a scary fall), but worse still was the related fact that one of the crank arms was falling off. I emailed Florian and spoke with him a few times in Switzerland, and I tried repairing things on my own and with the help of fellow NYUC club member (and fellow guni owner) Dave Bagley, but finally we realized that there was no way to fix this unicycle's hub. Florian had been working on an improved hub at this time, so rather than trying to fix my hub or sending me a replacement, he generously decided to give updated hubs to all owners of 1st generation hubs. These newer models have 12 internal pins rather than 6, and this means that the hub can switch into gear more smoothly. It took nearly six months for the updated hub to arrive, and it finally showed up last week [Florian had broken his arm and had gone to Laos on a unicycle tour, adding to the delay.] Once the hub arrived, I tried to rebuild the wheel (putting all of the spokes back on the rim), but my two attempts failed. Rebuilding a wheel is a Zen art, and I'm not even a Zen grasshopper when it comes to truing a wheel, let alone building one from scratch. So I paid a bike mechanic $35 for the job, and, as of Wednesday afternoon, was on my way. Sure enough, the shifting was nearly seamless. I was able to make transitions from low to high gear and back with little difficulty. I rode it to Brooklyn and back to my mom's apartment on the Upper West Side (a trip of about 8.5 miles each way) twice, logging a total of about 36 miles on it until just an hour ago when I realized that one of the crank arms is loose. The loose arm is on the downshift-button side. That is the same thing that happened to me last time, if I'm not mistaken. Luckily for me, a fellow member of the NYUC also has a guni from Florian, so he may be able to fix this when I see him tomorrow. If not, I'll have to disassemble the wheel again (that's a lot easier than building it!) and send the newer hub back to Switzerland. Ugh. -- David_Stone Dictator for Life, NYUC Check out my blog (or else): http://newyorkunicycle.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David_Stone's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/3834 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/48188 |
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Problem with my new Schlumpf guni hub?
Hmmm... my left crank came loose during the Laos tour. We just assumed it was the result of not being put on tight enough by the bike shop that I had build the new wheel for me. After that day's ride, I tightened it up and had no problem since. Though it'd probably be a good thing now to to go over it with a proper torque wrench and make sure it's tight. -- Gilby ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gilby's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/1 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/48188 |
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Problem with my new Schlumpf guni hub?
Wow. That's a relief. So maybe I can take it to the bike shop down the block and see. Thanks for the note, Gilby. I'll write back when I know more. David -- David_Stone Dictator for Life, NYUC Check out my blog (or else): http://newyorkunicycle.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David_Stone's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/3834 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/48188 |
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Problem with my new Schlumpf guni hub?
Well, I took it to the bike store, but here is the snag: The loose crank is the one off of the silver button, which is the one that does NOT come off with the special tool. Now, I have never taken apart one of these hubs, and I don't have Florian with me, so I wasn't sure what to do. We got the other crank arm off easily (the first time I'd seen what is behind a crank), but from there we had no idea what to do next. The other crank and the other button were just taunting me. -- David_Stone Dictator for Life, NYUC Check out my blog (or else): http://newyorkunicycle.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David_Stone's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/3834 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/48188 |
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Problem with my new Schlumpf guni hub?
Are these cranks regular square taper? If so anti-seize the taper and the bolt or nut thread liberally tap firmly but not too hard with a rubber mallet and tighten the bolt/nut. Anti-seize is the key! -- pdc "What doesn't kill you strengthens you, what kills you strengthens your mother" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pdc's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/8160 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/48188 |
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Problem with my new Schlumpf guni hub?
Schlumpf has manuals in PDF format for their bicycle geared bottom brackets. The manuals explain how to adjust the shifting buttons for depth in the cranks and other things. You can download the 'Mountain Drive manual here' (http://www.schlumpf.ch/md_engl.htm) (scroll down to the bottom of the page). Print that out and the bike shop should be able to get the shifting buttons adjusted for you. -- john_childs john_childs (att) hotmail (dott) com Gallery: http://gallery.unicyclist.com/john_childs 'Unicycling Bookmark List' (http://backcountry.unicyclist.com/) :: 'World Clock' (http://tinyurl.com/a99y3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ john_childs's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/449 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/48188 |
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Problem with my new Schlumpf guni hub?
Thanks, John. I checked out the site and eventually found the right technical manual pages. Luckily I can take them to the bike mechanic tom'w (whether he's available is another issue). I can also buy a torque wrench and try the work myself or with a club member. I really hope I can get this taken care of HERE rather than in SWITZERLAND! David -- David_Stone Dictator for Life, NYUC Check out my blog (or else): http://newyorkunicycle.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David_Stone's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/3834 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/48188 |
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Problem with my new Schlumpf guni hub?
What length and brand of cranks are they, David? -- U-Turn Weep in the dojo... laugh on the battlefield. 'LiveWire Unicycles' (http://www.livewireunicycles.com) 'Strongest Coker Wheel in the World' (http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/albup39) '29er Tire Study' (http://u-turn.unicyclist.com/29erTireStudy/) 'New York Unicycle Club' (http://www.newyorkunicycle.com) -- Dave Stockton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ U-Turn's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/691 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/48188 |
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Problem with my new Schlumpf guni hub?
i know this is completely off topic but with the splinded geared hub comming out in the summer. i was wondering if you can replace the axel or do you have to replace the whole hub? -- vicuniclub ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vicuniclub's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10052 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/48188 |
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Problem with my new Schlumpf guni hub?
U-Turn wrote: What length and brand of cranks are they, David? Honestly, I don't remember. The thing is in the car, anyway. I'm so annoyed about this. I think they were 140s or 150s, and I'm curious as to why you wanted to know. Florian wrote me today, asking whether I had tightened the crank arms or whether he had. When I sent back my hub, I also sent back the attached cranks because I had no way of taking them off (or if I did, I didn't know it). But D4 sent his hub back without the cranks, so maybe he will know what to do (when I see him tomw) or will have the tool for tightening the crank. I assumed that the assembly would come back to me in perfect shape and that this issue would have gone away. It's hard to believe I waited 6 months for this. I do know that the cranks seemed fine when I got the assembly back -- otherwise the mechanic and I would have noticed the loose crank earlier. So I'm guessing that something went wrong within a few miles of riding the new assembly, which seems odd, but it's my only guess. Is it possible that Florian used some of the same components when he gave me the new hub? Perhaps the cause of the loose crank was never dealt with and I'm just riding the same faulty crank? I wish I knew enough even to make a good guess (or at least to be able to explain it to a bike mechanic). -- David_Stone Dictator for Life, NYUC Check out my blog (or else): http://newyorkunicycle.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David_Stone's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/3834 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/48188 |
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