Help Re: Tacx Swing

Quoted message said:

Hi,

Can anyone tell me whether I have to use a quick release skewer with
the Tacx Swing?

Please excuse my ignorance, but my wheels do not have quick release
mechanisms, so I do not know if I can use it with the Tacx equipment.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Al

Yes. The TACX qr has a special shape and you do need to use it IME.

D'ohBoy

Thanks D'ohBoy

Sorry again for my ignorance, I'm not really into biking (shock!), but
would I have to change my wheel completely to make this work?

Al

D'ohBoy wrote:

Yes. The TACX qr has a special shape and you do need to use it IME.

D'ohBoy

Quoted message said:

Thanks D'ohBoy

Sorry again for my ignorance, I'm not really into biking (shock!), but
would I have to change my wheel completely to make this work?

Al

D'ohBoy wrote:

Yes. The TACX qr has a special shape and you do need to use it IME.

D'ohBoy

Wheel must accept a QR. Yes, you would have to change your wheel (if
it is solid axle/nutted).

D'ohBoy

P.S.: Be careful with that top-posting - they shoot people around here
for much less ;-)

D'ohBoy said:

Wheel must accept a QR. Yes, you would have to change your wheel (if
it is solid axle/nutted).

Wrong. Tacx sells nuts that you can use with their trainers if the rear
hub doesn't use a quick release. A simple solution to a simple problem.

-as

D'ohBoy said:

Quoted message said:

Thanks D'ohBoy

Sorry again for my ignorance, I'm not really into biking (shock!), but
would I have to change my wheel completely to make this work?

Al

D'ohBoy wrote:

Yes. The TACX qr has a special shape and you do need to use it IME.

D'ohBoy

Wheel must accept a QR. Yes, you would have to change your wheel (if
it is solid axle/nutted).

D'ohBoy

P.S.: Be careful with that top-posting - they shoot people around here
for much less ;-)

Thanks a lot for your help D'ohBoy.

LOL, sorry about that (I hope this reply is in the right place!!)

Al

Antti Salonen said:

D'ohBoy said:

Wheel must accept a QR. Yes, you would have to change your wheel (if
it is solid axle/nutted).

Wrong. Tacx sells nuts that you can use with their trainers if the rear
hub doesn't use a quick release. A simple solution to a simple problem.

-as

D'oh! Thanks for the correction (and I'm sure the OP is too!).

D'ohBoy

D'ohBoy said:

Antti Salonen said:

D'ohBoy said:

Wheel must accept a QR. Yes, you would have to change your wheel (if
it is solid axle/nutted).

Wrong. Tacx sells nuts that you can use with their trainers if the rear
hub doesn't use a quick release. A simple solution to a simple problem.

-as

D'oh! Thanks for the correction (and I'm sure the OP is too!).

D'ohBoy

Antti Salonen,

Thats great news, I like simple solutions :-)

Could you recommend a website for these nuts?

Thanks,

Al

Quoted message said:

Could you recommend a website for these nuts?

I don't know where you are, but I would ask any shop that sells Tacx
trainers or tools. Tacx seems to sell two kinds of nuts, depending on
what kind of axle you have:

http://www.tacx.nl/html/template11.php?pageid=2571&l=en&p=PRODUCTS

-as

I'll let my ignorance hang out. I thought you could replace a solid axle
with a hollow one using a quick release. Is that not true? Sometimes true?
Never true?

Leo Lichtman said:

I'll let my ignorance hang out. I thought you could replace a solid axle
with a hollow one using a quick release. Is that not true? Sometimes true?
Never true?

Dear Leo,

For real riding, you can use hollow or solid axles.

But I think that in this thread it's a question of getting the bike to
fit into the Tacx trainer--the axle QR/nuts are used to clamp the
beast into place on the trainer.

Here are the odd solid-axle nuts that Anti linked to:

http://www.tacx.nl/html/template11.php?pageid=2571&l=en&p=PRODUCTS

Click on the picture to enlarge them, and you'll see they're kind of
weird.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

Antti Salonen said:

Quoted message said:

Could you recommend a website for these nuts?

I don't know where you are, but I would ask any shop that sells Tacx
trainers or tools. Tacx seems to sell two kinds of nuts, depending on
what kind of axle you have:

http://www.tacx.nl/html/template11.php?pageid=2571&l=en&p=PRODUCTS

-as

Thanks Antti :-)

Al