My back wheel is a little loose. It was even more so, but I tightened up the nuts on either side. However, the wheel still rattles around a little. The gears and axle all seem to be sound, it‘s just there‘s extra room on the axle; no matter how much it is tightened.Any solutions?
No. Motorcycles are as dangerous as the skills of the driver allow. However, it's all the other vehicles on the road that make motorcycles dangerous. There is simply a group of people out there who's brains won't allow them to see motorcycles as vehicles. They will pull in front of you while looking right at you. If you decide on a motorcycle, you must drive defensively at every intersection, crossing, highway, and everywhere else other vehicles are. And it wouldn't hurt if you got a dirt bike now to get the feel of how bikes react on different surfaces and temperatures. Consider it 2 years worth of practice. Been there, done that.
pancakes is right it depends on how good of a driver YOU are and how aware you are of other people. you MUST be a very defensive driver on a motorcycle!!!! if you don't what that means, its means don't pull out in front of people even if you have to think for a second in your head can i make it? don't go. you have to let other people who are in their hurry be on their hurry and just stay out of their way. learn and be aware of any blind spots that a driver would have in their car. you don't want to cruise on your motorcycle and be hanging around like the rear end of the car in the lane next to you, because they can't see you there. just wear a helmet, buy a safety vest even, and take classes and the benefits of motorcycle riding far outweigh the risks. airplanes look dangerous too but people fly in them every day.
If u have three piece cranks then it's either the backside braket that is free nevertheless it probbly often is the cranks themselves chiefly if the bike was purchased inside the final week to 3months.Go to a bike store and ask them what the crisis is solely to be definite
Wait, you didn't say what type of bike it is. If it is old style, it might simply need the cone nuts adjusted. No matter how much you tighten it, it will be loose because the cones have lock nuts that prevent it from being tightened by the axle nuts (and also loosen). If you have a cartridge hub, then the cartridge needs replacement. It also has a lock nut, but it rarely has play unless you've been messing with it or the cartridge is damaged.
bad bearings/unseated bearings or the nuts came loose against after your tightened them (sometimes it requires a light thread-locker compound) When you take the rear wheel off tighten those wheel nuts, put the wheel on the ground or hold the axle steady and see if there is still movement. If there is still movement (without the wheel in the frame) then you didn't tighten it down enough or the bearings are unseated/F**ked up inside. If there is no movement when its out of the frame but there is when you put it back in either those nuts loosened up a bit (unlikely but possible) or you screwed up putting it back in the bike somehow. You may need to open up the hub and service it youself to see if a bearing is unseated or if there is any good grease left in it. Buy some grease, open it up, clean it out, repack it with fresh grease, grease the axle where the nut will go, and tighten it back down so theres no wiggle. It should be tight enough so theres no wiggle when the wheel is out of the frame (as I said, hold the axle and see if the wheel still moves side to side) but when you spin it it shouldn't feel like its grinding (that means its too tight).
