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Rear Wheel Rubber Dampers
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Not a big job to change them later
deltarider:
You can make your own with pleaded pieces of bicycle inner tube.
Sesman:
Please don’t make them from inner tube rubber😳. I think he meant ‘shim’ them with cutdown inner tube. TBH, the dampers are exactly what they claim to be and any loss of condition will simply result in a harsher ride and more drive chain snatch. Personally I’d take the hit and replace them, but if desperate shim them. Removing the slack might still not result in a satisfactory solution if the dampers have gone hard.
I’m inclined to agree with Ted. Suck it and see. If the ride is tolerable go with it, if not you can replace them at a later date. I replaced mine and the difference in ride experience was very noticeable.
Neilw:
--- Quote from: Sesman on September 09, 2026, 08:17:07 AM ---Please don’t make them from inner tube rubber😳. I think he meant ‘shim’ them with cutdown inner tube. TBH, the dampers are exactly what they claim to be and any loss of condition will simply result in a harsher ride and more drive chain snatch. Personally I’d take the hit and replace them, but if desperate shim them. Removing the slack might still not result in a satisfactory solution if the dampers have gone hard.
I’m inclined to agree with Ted. Suck it and see. If the ride is tolerable go with it, if not you can replace them at a later date. I replaced mine and the difference in ride experience was very noticeable.
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I found some reasonably priced ones in Germany, so as you say i might just bite the bullet, as i already have the wheel off and need to put new rubber on it anyway. What's another £35 to an ever-growing bill :-)
Oddjob:
I’d have said replace them. For gods sake don’t forget to grease the sliding mechanism. Easy done in your haste to get everything back together. Ideally the sprocket carrier should be quite hard to get back into place, some silicon or rubber grease helps to slide it back into place. It should have minimal movement if it’s done right. Less than 1mm I’d say. That’s forward and back not left to right.
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