Yes, you can remove those screws if you want to. The only purpose of those screws is to give you something to register the rear wheel against before you secure it in place. Without them present, you just need to deliberately put the wheel where you want it before securing it.
Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Monday, April 10, 2017 at 4:05:55 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > Does anyone know if I can remove the small, threaded, axle positioners > from the rear drop outs without ill effect? Then the axle will go all the > way back. Do the screws significantly strengthen the drop out? I have a > marginal fit with a set of tires and removing the screws will get me a 1/4 > inch rearward and possibly enough room to fit. Any thoughts? > Much appreciated! I know that I may have to carefully align the wheel but > I assume the dropouts without the screws are pretty square.) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
