Wheel arrow
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Miztaziggy
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Wheel arrow
If you put on your front wheel with the arrows on brake disk and tyre both facing wrong way, toward back, does it make any difference?
Re: Wheel arrow
I would have thought YES!
Otherwise there wouldn't be an arrow on there.
I can imagine that as far as the tyre goes the tread pattern would be reversed & therefore won't clear water as it is designed to do.
Now get back out to the garage take it off & refit correctly.
I would also assume that in the event of a prang, your friendly insurance assessor MR Robin Bastid would use it as an excuse not to pay out.
Otherwise there wouldn't be an arrow on there.
I can imagine that as far as the tyre goes the tread pattern would be reversed & therefore won't clear water as it is designed to do.
Now get back out to the garage take it off & refit correctly.
I would also assume that in the event of a prang, your friendly insurance assessor MR Robin Bastid would use it as an excuse not to pay out.
Making up since 2007, sometimes it's true...Honest...
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Miztaziggy
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Wheel arrow
Well the reason I ask is I just took off the front wheel to check my brakes. They seemed really odd today like having massively warped disks. When I took off the wheel I noticed I had fitted it wrong way round.
Problem is, are the arrows on brake disk for direction of rotation or pointing to front? Tyre arrow says front next to it, so I assume that arrow goes against the direction of rotation?
The brake disk arrow doesn't say anything, so does it go same way as tyre, and point to front, or does it point in direction of rotation, and toward the back?
Problem is, are the arrows on brake disk for direction of rotation or pointing to front? Tyre arrow says front next to it, so I assume that arrow goes against the direction of rotation?
The brake disk arrow doesn't say anything, so does it go same way as tyre, and point to front, or does it point in direction of rotation, and toward the back?
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Er! I would have thought that the arrow on the tyre & the disc should be pointing to the front & therefore be pointing in the direction of rotation.
How can I put this?....If The arrow is at the top of the wheel as you look at it & is facing forward, then when you wheel the bike forwards it will travel forwards to. Think like a clockface, assuming your standing on the left hand side of the bike so forwards will be moving to your left, you still with me here? With the arrow at the top (12 o/c) wheel the bike forward & when the arrow is at the bottom(6 o/c) it will be facing toward the rear of the bike.
Clear as mud is it not?
I've read that through 4 times & it just about makes sense to me & I do mean just!
How can I put this?....If The arrow is at the top of the wheel as you look at it & is facing forward, then when you wheel the bike forwards it will travel forwards to. Think like a clockface, assuming your standing on the left hand side of the bike so forwards will be moving to your left, you still with me here? With the arrow at the top (12 o/c) wheel the bike forward & when the arrow is at the bottom(6 o/c) it will be facing toward the rear of the bike.
Clear as mud is it not?
I've read that through 4 times & it just about makes sense to me & I do mean just!
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Miztaziggy
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Wheel arrow
Thanks mac, put it back like that.
Strange thing is spacers needed switching round, meaning it must be the wheel that isn't symmetrical or something? If wheel goes in one way big spacer goes on rhs of bike, switch wheel round and big spacer moves to lhs of bike.
Can someone pls confirm which side of their front wheel their big spacer is on?
Strange thing is spacers needed switching round, meaning it must be the wheel that isn't symmetrical or something? If wheel goes in one way big spacer goes on rhs of bike, switch wheel round and big spacer moves to lhs of bike.
Can someone pls confirm which side of their front wheel their big spacer is on?
Wheel arrow
Can't remember off the top of my head but next time, when you take the wheel off just put the axle through the middle and do up the nut. That way nowt falls off and you know which way it goes back on.
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Re: Wheel arrow
Pay more attention when you take the front wheel off next timeMiztaziggy wrote: Can someone pls confirm which side of their front wheel their big spacer is on?
The biggest wheel spacer for the front wheel fits on the righthand side of the bike, throttle side
Chris.
PS. As for the directional arrows, if you push the bike forward the arrows should be pointing the way the wheel is turning.