Magura disc brake - wheel removal

[Pale Rider]

I want to take my bike for a ride in my (new) car which means removing the front wheel.

It's a Rose trekking ebike with a Suntour suspension fork and quick release.

Removing the wheel is simple enough and I have the Magura Transport Device - a bit of yellow plastic.

The procedure appears to be push the device between the pads and then put a rubber band around the lever, presumably to apply a bit of pressure to the device to prevent it falling out.

Common sense suggests refitting would be remove the rubber band first, then the device, then put the wheel back in, being careful not to squeeze the lever.

Do I have these processes about right?

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Common sense suggests refitting would be remove the rubber band first, then the device, then put the wheel back in, being careful not to squeeze the lever.

Do I have these processes about right?

Yup that's correct -- the idea being not to squeeze the lever if there is nothing between the pads

 

[Pale Rider]

...update...

Wheel safely removed and device pushed between the pads.

Slight complication was the Alfine dyno-hub which required disconnecting.

The wheel is surprisingly light, given it's a 29er and has a disc rotor and dynamo bolted to it.

Bike and wheel now safely stowed in the back of the car in preparation for an earlyish start for tomorrow's ride.

Where?

Since you ask, the plan is a circuit of Kielder Water in Northumberland.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

... the plan is a circuit of Kielder Water in Northumberland.

Did that last weekend

It's better doing it clockwise

 

[Pale Rider]

Did that last weekend

It's better doing it clockwise

I was thinking about which way to go.

Tempting to ask why clockwise is better, but what you say is good enough for me, so clockwise it will be.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

I just find you get short sharp up and then long downhill stretches going round clockwise.

I usually park at Matthew's Linn (just south of Lewisburn) and head off clockwise - you get the far side out the way first and then head back 'towards civilisation' with all the decent rest stops in the 2nd ½

 

[Pale Rider]

I had the same thought about doing the more remote side first.

May park where you suggest, or a bit further around towards Kielder village.

Looking forward to it, lovely part of the world.

 

[Pale Rider]

...update...

Ride around Kielder completed with no wheel removal/replacement problems.

Went clockwise as suggested.

Two or three sharp (to me, anyway) climbs which I wasn't expecting but should have been given I was half-way up the side of a flooded valley.

The route is easy to follow, the paths are properly maintained, and perhaps best of all, there are only two or three gates which means mile after mile of uninterrupted riding.

Recommended.

http://www.visitkielder.com/

 

[Deleted member 23692]

It's not just you... they are sharp climbs!, but I think it adds some variety, challenge and surprise into what could so easily have been a boring flat loop.

Glad you enjoyed it