{"id":85,"date":"2008-06-23T18:50:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T22:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-06-23T18:56:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T22:56:48","slug":"worn-cone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/23\/worn-cone\/","title":{"rendered":"Worn Cone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/bike_stuff\/IMG_1734.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/75042-2\/IMG_1734.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 alt=\"Wear in the bearing race on one of the cones on the front wheel of my bike. This explains the poor rolling. I think it's time for new wheels.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know much about bearings, but I do know that&#8217;s not how a bearing race should look.<\/p>\n<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/22\/2007-avid-bb7\/\">mentioned yesterday<\/a>, the front wheel on my bike wasn&#8217;t turning right, moving slowly and stopping almost as if it was indexed or notched. When I took it off yesterday to look at it I found that one of the lock nuts were very loose, so today after work I pulled the bearings apart and cleaned them up. After cleaning things up I found that one of the cones (the loose one) has this damage to it, which would definitely explain the weird motion.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how this came loose, but it definitely wasn&#8217;t a problem before <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/almost-comically-bad-day\/\">Saturday&#8217;s amusing ride<\/a>. Now to decide if i want to get a new cone nut and try and rebuild the hub on the fairly damaged wheel, or just toss it and finally get a new set.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m leaning towards the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know much about bearings, but I do know that&#8217;s not how a bearing race should look. As I mentioned yesterday, the front wheel&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/23\/worn-cone\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Worn Cone<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}