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Dealing with a flat tyre
20.1 Opening a brake
20.1.1 Opening a V-brake
• Grip around the wheel with one hand.
• At the same time, press both brake arms
and brake pads against the rim at the same
time.
• The brake cable can now be removed on
one of the brake arms.
20.1.2 Opening hydraulic rim brakes
• If you have a brake quick release, you can
remove a braking unit
• Let the air out of the tyres if no brake quick
releases are fitted.
20.1.3 Loosening hub gears, roller or back-
pedal brakes
• Open the quick release on the brake arm or
the cable clamping screw.
• Open the screw on the brake arm on the
chain stay if you have backpedal brakes.
20.2 Removing a wheel
Please note that the process described in the
following is an example. Therefore please also
take note of the information provided by the
respective manufacturer or contact your spe-
cialist retailer.
20.2.1 Removing the front wheel
• You may have to remove the light cable be-
fore removing the wheel
• Open the quick release if your FLYER has
one (see chap. 7.2 “Operating quick re-
leases”)
• If your front wheel is fixed with an axle nut,
loosen this anti-clockwise with a suitable
spanner (15 mm).
• If your front wheel is secured against un-
intentional removal by a specially shaped
dropout, turn the axle nut further in a clock-
wise direction. As soon as the washer and
axle nut no longer touch the dropout, you
can remove the front wheel from the fork.
• If your front wheel is fitted with a wheel re-
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