When I went to clean the Transition for the first time I put it up on my repair stand and with some amount of struggling was able to remove the back wheel. However, when I went to put the back wheel on again it was a fight and a half.
When I built Erin (the Roubaix) and even when I replace the chain, I always ensure to put a master link in the chain. Apparently Master Links are wider than regular links, they are weaker, it is harder to change gears with master links (apparently), but I have to say, when it comes to doing repairs, cleaning the chain, or even just removing the rear wheel. The ability to rapidly remove the chain and then reattach it is worth a lot, certainly it is worth more to me to have a master link and contend with the "difficulty" of changing gears than to contend with the much more real difficulty of removing a wheel with an unbroken chain.
Anyway this evening I am going to hop on my Transition and set some land speed records. Actually its too windy, I doubt that is going to happen.
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