Geisha Maintenance 2 (slack)

Here is the description of gr_paul from www.bikeguide.org:

This past weekend I took my Geisha apart, and removed the 3 washers to give it more slack. also to grease the inside good. I took pics before and after, to show how much slack comes stock & with the 3 spacers removed. I ended up buying a 19 mm cone wrench, cause one of the studs was loose and I couldn’t get the wheel off my bike. Impossible without one.

Take your time taking the hub apart, remember how everything goes.

to get the geisha apart….

-take off both side studs

-turn out the driver

-rubber hammer the axle out from the drive side

-remove bearing on non drive side

-remove spacers (not the hat spacer) from the axle

-grease the driver[this is the threads. Also, dont forget to grease the clutch right above the spring, and the back side of the clutch where it runs back into that spacer. p.w.]

reassemble (make sure everything is seated nice)

Here is the amount of slack you are given by taking out the three washers in the hub with a normal ~ 2.75 gear ratio.

Before:

(Picture courtesy of gr_paul and ghosting done by Fabian Venegas)

And After…

(Picture courtesy of gr_paul and ghosting done by Fabian Venegas)

That is almost double the slack…