Taking off the front wheel

[DebW]

I've been wondering about this myself. It's obvious my tires are a bit wider than my rims. I have stock tires right now which would make me think they should fit through ok. <shrug>

When I release the lever on the calipers, the brakes actually tighten more instead of release.

Tiffanie, your brakes cables were tightened with that lever in the wrong position! If your LBS did this, take it back and make them fix it. Sometimes even a mechanic can be a dork.

[Tiffanie]

Tiffanie, your brakes cables were tightened with that lever in the wrong position! If your LBS did this, take it back and make them fix it. Sometimes even a mechanic can be a dork.

I certainly will!!! Thank you.

[esther231]

I called the bike shop. They are willing to change the wheel to a 25. Hopefully, that's a big enough difference that I can get the wheel off easier.

Much thanks.

[Tuckervill]

There isn't a bike rack that I can use with my car. It's a VW bug with a sun roof and with turbo. No roof, no hitch, no trunk rack will work.

Bummer about it being a turbo s. I have a TDI Beetle and have the hitch from Draw-tight and a Yakima King Pin 4 (with one set of bike tie downs removed--Beetle can only handle the weight of 3 bikes).

Have you looked around on newbeetle.org to see if anyone knows about a European rack that might work? VW makes a German one that has hydraulics to lift the bike to the roof. spendy, though.

I never thought about putting my bike in the back--I guess it would fit with the seat down. But I always have to take two bikes, one for me and one for my son. That probably would NOT work!

Glad your tire problem seems to be on the road to recovery.

Karen

[Tuckervill]

Hey! I found one for the Beetle Turbo S that would work!

http://www.birdautomotive.com/Bike%2...w%20Beetle.htm

And it looks cool when the rack's not on the car.

Karen