Snapped rear axel, easy to fix?

[megaphone]

A friend has a snapped axle on his hybrid. It's a Bontranger wheel so I assume the hub is, just a generic type low cost wheel. It's a QR type with cones and ball bearings. Are spares easy to get? So far his local bike shop have told him he needs a new wheel.

[Engineer1]

depends what he has snapped but you can get new QR skewers, wheels can be purchased cheaply enough.

[uncinqsix]

I would think that the axle would be fairly generic, so something like a standard shimano one might work. Might be tricky buying an axle by itself though.

[47p2]

Most wheel builders will keep a suitable axle in stock and it's an easy job to replace. You need to know who the manufacturer of the rear hub is.

[CoolC]

You need something like THIS

I believe Halfords sell them.

[Digga]

[dave123456]

axle should be standard thread, and i'd say 135mm length, so swap out the cones and locknuts onto a standard shimano and it should be fine...

my mother had a bike she used to go into town on from time to time that had a qr front hub back when they were fashionable, Halfords told her the whole hub would need swapping out to convert to a solid axle, I bought the parts required (inc a little tube of grease) for about £11 and did it in half an hour or less.

simple enough job with cone spanners.

[megaphone]

Thanks for the replies, so parts are available, I'm hoping my LBS will have some, they're usually a helpful bunch so they should be able to give me the correct one.

[upsidedownmark]

As above, should be easy/uncomplicated. However, it may be the case that it's more cost effective to just buy a new wheel..

[yellowjack]

Digga said:

Little known fact.

In the military, if something cannot be fixed with the basic toolkit Digga has pictured above, it cannot in fact be fixed at all

[Digga]

yellowjack said:

Digga said:

Little known fact.

In the military, if something cannot be fixed with the basic toolkit Digga has pictured above, it cannot in fact be fixed at all

This (crap) picture is the 'repair' we did on my mates OneOne chainstay with said kit:



Given that he weighs about 18 stone, it was only good enough to scoot or pedal on very flat sections, to get out of the woods, but better than nowt.