How do you get your rear wheel back in without 5 hands?

[HLaB]

@Dadam Has the rear derailleur got a clutch? If so you need to set it to off before you take the wheel out. Getting back wheel in is easier with QR skewers and you just need to pull the mech back over the cassette and let the skewers guide the wheel into place. After doing it, you may need a fettle. A han pedal of the crank to sort the chain. Then with the bike on ground you can open the QR, pull the brake and close the QR again to centre the wheel. If you are using a clutch don't forget to flip it back on too.

 

[PaulSB]

@Dadam you have my support and sympathy. I always struggle to get the rear wheel in. I watch friends nonchalantly slip their wheels back in as if was the simplest job in the universe. It isn't!!! 😡

 

[Dadam]

@Dadam Has the rear derailleur got a clutch? If so you need to set it to off before you take the wheel out.

Only one of the fleet does. But thanks for the pointer.

Getting back wheel in is easier with QR skewers and you just need to pull the mech back over the cassette and let the skewers guide the wheel into place.

It really isn't for me! Much prefer TAs.

 

[Dadam]

One of my better frames (Raleigh Road Ace in 531) has a little lug on the seat stay that you hook the chain on to when removing the rear wheel, keeps the rear mech tensioned when removing the wheel...........not a bad idea for a bike over 40 years old (built in 1983)

Oh that's clever, never seen that before.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Piece of piss with QRs. Make sure you’ve shifted to smallest cog before dropping wheel out. Then it’s straightforward to drop wheel out and get it back in.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

@Dadam I'm in the same boat
In addition, my bikes are hefty, I'm 5ft nothing.
I find it easier if I take off the chain first.
Bike upside down no way, I get confused

 

[Jenkins]

I find the main problem is pushing the rear derailleur back out of the way far enough for clearance to get the wheel back in. Much helped with the SRAM 1x systems where there's a little push button to lock the derailleur fully extended and clear of the dropouts.

 

[grldtnr]

@Dadam you have my support and sympathy. I always struggle to get the rear wheel in. I watch friends nonchalantly slip their wheels back in as if was the simplest job in the universe. It isn't!!! 😡

Really ? I am deffo in the nonchalant camp, mind you I am quite old & grizzled, and way used to hoicking wheels out of narrower rear tracks OLN Hub widths.
Always helps to have it upside down, on the smallest cog on the back, hold the wheeling both hands,, slip into the chain, put slight pressure on the dropouts to spring them apart, a bit of light pressure pushing down into the dropouts and Robert is father's brother, no bovver at all.
Mind you I've messing with bikes nigh on 50 yrs , first started to get dirty greasy fingernails when I was 10 ! Didn't have fancy schmanzy derailleurs then, just single speeds, and rod brakes...,.. nay lad ,tha' divn't no yer were born......I dunno ,the yoofs of today