Not a very happy chappy at the moment! Geared bike is in for a lengthy service - and have been hitting the trails on the SS... Been killing myself getting up the local hill - but things are slowly improving! Thing is - the appeal of having a maintenance freeless-so ride in a SS, is beginning to fade ever so slightly... The tensioner I have installed, is doing a pretty poor job of providing tension... I regularly have to hop off and re-tighten the bottom bolt, inevitably just at the bottom of a long uphill... This happens before I've even started standing, and I've been particularly mindful of not mashing the pedals, but ensuring an even, constant rotation in my pedal-stroke... The skewer-length problem highlighted above, is also providing its own issues... Even with a max skewer-length of 170mm, the end threaded/adjustment-cap of the skewer simply doesn't get enough bite on the skewer-thread... The wheel is somehow shifting during the ride, with the result that by the time I'm almost home, the rear-wheel has developed brake-pad rub... In the absence of a longer skewer - I presumably have three options: 1.) Start looking at different tensioners, that do not make use of the (red-circled) tab (as above); 2.) Have an machine shop alter the threaded/adjustment-cap of the skewer, to remove the inset-depth of the thread 'bite' on the cap, thereby 'regaining' the mm's lost to the (red-circled) tab; or 3.) find my golden ratio and loose the tensioner... Joy.
