20 Most Recent Mongoose Maneuver Mountain Bike - Page 9 Questions & Answers

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Sports Store? Do they also sell fishing tackle, skis and appliances? Take it back and buy a real bike at a real Bicycle Shop.

It will be fully functional and fitted to your son before you take it home and in a month or so they'll probably re-tune the shifting and everything for free.

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Well if you mean what is twenty inch, its the wheel. The wheel diameter (from one point on the rim through the center and to the other side) is twenty inches.

I am not very familiar with pegs, but I presume that you just remove the bolts inside the pegs. Use a wrachet with an extension. The nut should be 5/8 inch, or in metric 15 mm. They are the same. The pegs should then slide off. Replace the nuts because they hold the wheels on. If I was wrong about something give your local bike shop a call and ask them for advice or even bring it to them.

If it used to work and the cables are new then the cabels streached as normal you need derailer adjustments. If you have had it a while, and recently fell then you bent your derailer hanger take it to a bike shop to be straitened by a pro.. If it is a new bike and never worked at all then you need some derailer adjustments. You can adjust your derailer your self IF you know what you are doing. Otherwise go to a bike shop and have them do it. .

this might help you I can't find the picture I have of the assembly, I'll keep looking for it though http://bicycletutor.com/overhaul-threaded-headset/ heres a breakdown with a picture of the headset assembly http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bicycles/Maintenance_and_Repair/Headsets/Headset_Overhaul

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Get the rim / tire of the frame. Let all the air out of the tube, Using two flat blade screw drivers, put them between the rim and tire about 3 inches apart, (be careful not to puncture the tube) Pry the tire over the rim, leave one in place and move the other about 3 more inches and pry the tire over the rim again, keep moving around the rim until the side is off. Reach in and pull the tube out, fish the stem through the hole. Finish pulling the tire off the rim, you can use liquid soap to help make things easy. Put the rim back together the same way. Hope this helps Fix Ya up.

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Metal chains and gears will not fail to engage simply because they're slippery. Look closely at how they mesh. Maybe the teeth are worn, or the chain or both.

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flip the bike over and look at the bottom under the main crank

Spray WD40 or other penetrating oil on all moving parts. If you get a syringe from a pharmacy you can put oil into it an squirt it down the shifter and brake cable sleeves. If any moving parts are still stiff, leave the bike for a day to allow the oil to soak and penetrate. Try not to get any oil on the brake pads or rims.

There is probably not a single thing on that bike that is specific to Mongoose. In other words, every adjustment and component on it is in accordance with the third-party manufacturer's specs.

Find one of their generic manuals here...

http://www.mongoose.com/usa/usaeng/mtn/man_inst

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It's all adjustments.

Quick releases skewers will hold the wheel just fine if tightened properly. They're SUPPOSED TO dig into the paint.

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Deralleur and brake cables will stretch or break-in with initial use and always require some tweaking early on. Some shops build that expected tune-up into their sales offering.

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For the gear problem.Find the shifter.Use a pair of pliers and loosen the nut where the cable is passing through the shifter.Now withe the pliers pull the cable tight.Very tight.Spray the shifter with WD-40.That should fix it.


For the front rim,tighten all the spokes.Pliers will work,but a spoke too; will make the job faster.

There is a screw on the derailer.Loosen it and using pliers pull it tight the hold while you tighten the screw.