{"id":551,"date":"2009-07-14T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/14\/review-surly-tuggnut\/"},"modified":"2009-07-14T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:34:00","slug":"review-surly-tuggnut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/14\/review-surly-tuggnut\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Surly Tuggnut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I dislike the whole single speed &#8220;less gears more beers&#8221; vibe that I believe Surly is partly responsible for.  And the whole single speed subculture of putting bottle openers on everything. I bought a Surly Tuggnut and it works sort of. It sort of kept the wheel from slowly sliding in the dropouts. Meh&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SnraKE2gSQI\/AAAAAAAAB_I\/PJueKsEHEyM\/s1600-h\/IMGP0813.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SnraKE2gSQI\/AAAAAAAAB_I\/PJueKsEHEyM\/s400\/IMGP0813.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366841772601264386\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My single speed was making noise under hard pedalling. Which made no sense to a simple man like me who was preached the virtues of single speed and how it was maintenance free bliss.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out my wheel was slipping a bit in the dropouts. My local bike shop had the Surly Tuggnut in and it fixed the problem temporarily . It fits over the axle (even includes a spacer for QR skewers), and you screw out the little stop to press against the back of the drop out (or track end if you are a stickler for semantics) to keep the wheel from slipping.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/Sly1aiO_qLI\/AAAAAAAAB2U\/J3I9ZLSMVTs\/s1600-h\/003.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/Sly1aiO_qLI\/AAAAAAAAB2U\/J3I9ZLSMVTs\/s400\/003.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358357124134971570\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks later, and no slipping so I thought it was working.. One more week passed and it has slipped enough to be noticeable. Meh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I dislike the whole single speed &#8220;less gears more beers&#8221; vibe that I believe Surly is partly responsible for. And the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}