"Dave", our resident c5 that we loan out, needs a bit of tlc.
I went to loan it out to the Sea Cadets at Ardingly and found that the chain was slipping so badly that you could barely get moving. Since it is a fairly new chain I thought something else might be amiss
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Having taken a proper look I found that the chassis has bent causing the offside rear wheel to move forwards and upwards. This in turn seems to have caused movement in the axle alignment and shortened the distance between the two cogs, hence the Chain slipping - it is now too long
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The first piccie is of "Moneypit" , showing the wheel sitting correctly in the wheel arch;
This next piccie is of "Dave" showing how far the wheel has moved;
Not a great piccie, but this is where the bend has occurred;
I'll take some better ones once I've removed the chassis to repair it.
I don't know exactly how ,or when, this happened, I suspect the person riding it has hit a deep pothole, bumped off a kerb or hit a "speed bump" too fast.
But don't worry, "Dave" will be resurrected