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The creation of a bike trailer is a great benefit to any parent who enjoys going for a nice bike ride. With a bike trailer, it's now possible for parents and small children to get out there and enjoy the ride together. Most trailers can easily be assembled by attaching a metal tow bar. This guide will discuss how to install a bike trailer, which is quite simple.
Start by loosening the rear wheel axle nut, on the left side of the bike. There may be a release skewer on the right side of the bike that needs to be released in order to loosen the nut on the left. Proceed to unthread the wheel axle nut on the left of the bike. If there's no skewer on the right of the bike, then you'll need a wrench to unscrew the nut.
Most trailers will include a plastic tab washer. Proceed by placing the plastic tab washer over the left axle with the trailer attached. This will simply fit right over the frame of the bike and should be flush on.
The next step includes the coupler plates that are provided. Place the coupler plates with the tabs on the back side of the plates fitting directly into the holes on the tab washer. Once you've placed the coupler plate in the right position, the big hole will sit just under the axle.
On the end of the axle, you'll need to replace the nut. If you have a release skewer, you'll be able to tighten the nut with your hands. Once it's tight, then make sure you close the lever on the right of the bike. If you don't have the release skewer, you can position the nut with your hands but you'll need to tighten it with a wrench.
The end of the trailer is now ready to fit into the large hole, which is located on the coupler plate. The tow bar should be in place by using the safety pin to secure the bar. The safety or fastening pin should go through the eyelet in the coupler plate.
Take the safety strap which is found on the tow bar and loop it around the tube of the frame. It should be positioned vertically from the axle. The end of the safety strap should then clip onto the D-ring which can be found on the two-bar.
This may sound difficult, but it's a quick process. Once it's installed, make sure everything is safe and locked into place. Then get out there and enjoy the ride with your child!
This author is a huge fan of the outdoors and loves writing about different ways to enjoy nature. One of his favorite hobbies is biking and he can be found with his child in a Schwinn Bike Trailer riding around his neighborhood on most weekends.
The John Dory, Barbao
In the Garden under the Sea
With just 50 seats and not much aisle, and given its elite gastropub provenance, born out of Spotted Pig with April Bloomfield at the stove and Ken Friedman wheeling about out front, John Dory will not be easy for mere mortals to crash. I got lucky. Our dinner buddy knew someone. That’s how Tuesday we sailed into the perfect storm of restaurant critics (click here for a roll call) that has Friedman speed-walking backwards and sideways trying to look cool while the chef dispatches exquisitely briny tidbits from the kitchen as well as the smoked arctic char mousse “amuse” to spread on fried parsnip chips.
It’s safe to predict you’ll want to come by too, not just because you’re masochistic and need to go where you can’t get in, but because the sea creatures are impeccably fresh and mostly good and the place is funny and finny. Seashells glued on mirrors. Whimsical fish in stained glass and illuminated Lucite underfoot, on tiles, and live in a giant aquarium that divides the space and is reflected in mirrors. Even a shy yellow eel wakes up when Friedman tosses the fish their scallop lunch into the tank.
“Best fed fish in town,” says Joe Bastianach (with Mario Batali, consulting partners here and at Spotted). Bastianach stands at the bar, a sleek ninja of the dining room, sipping wine, hooded eyes watching for flare-ups. “But the fish don’t get the scallops with pomegranate,” our server notes, referring to a $16 crudo.
She’s a jaunty Hepburnesque dame, elegant, flip, impressive, knows the history and geography of every dish. In fact, the staff seems remarkably well-coached here, right down to the chap hustling excellent bread. Minced ginger heats up the eloquence of stunningly firm yellowtail crudo at the perfect temperature. Chopped and marinated razor clam seviche nests in a small bowl against a bright green garlicky sauce with scallion and chive.
For those bruised by sudden unemployment and portfolio distress, prices may seem forbidding. Oysters are $4 each and those sensational crudos and appetizers start at $16 and run to $20 for a counterculture steak tartare, with the exception of an unpleasant swamp of escarole salad at $14. Grilled octopus with celery, fennel and bottarga at $20 is big enough to share but the critter would be better with a caramelized edge. Lemon zest and barely cooked spinach give youth to that old warhorse, oysters Rockefeller. I’d go for the luscious oyster pan roast with sea urchin butter crostini for the same aggressive price tag and not give one bite to anyone. A skimpy portion of John Dory with salsa verde ($28) is cruelly overcooked for my taste. But I’d be back for sensational seared squid plumped full of chorizo rice stuffing with beans, crème fraîche and a tomato vinaigrette. Wine by the glass comes in quartino carafes.
On a whim, I chose a side for my main course, “Jensen’s temptation” – scalloped potatoes with onion, not as lush as I expected. I’m curious now to go back. This is a first tasting report after all. I’m eager to try the fish stew and pan-roasted cod with mantecato (Venetian cod paste), chili and artichoke chips. A food writer friend reports that the black pepper Dungeness crab is delicious, torrid and messy – a two napkin challenge. Sounds perfect to me.
Desserts like treacle pudding, cider jelly with cardamom cream, something called eccles cake with Stilton cheese seem lost in translation, but our shared quince almond tart with ginger ice cream, meager at $11, leaps the cultural divide.
Given all the hard surfaces, with only Black Watch plaid fabric lined banquettes to absorb sound, it’s some kind of acoustic miracle that we can actually talk and hear ourselves. “It’s basically a bar and a counter next to the kitchen, like Momofuku, except the seats have backs,” Friedman says. “Some people can’t handle the noise at the Spotted Pig so we hired this expensive acoustics guy to help us keep the sound level low. And I’m wearing socks.”
BarBao
Introducing neighborhood friends to the sensational Vietnamese food at BarBao, Steven and I have been back twice in ten days. Michael Huynh, the wandering chef, now a partner, is still in the kitchen even though he must have taken some time off to help his wife Thao Nguyen open Baoguette, a small sandwich and noodle shop at 61 Lexington, between 25th and 26th Streets.
BarBao’s designers have been finishing collages overhead and in strips between beams on the walls and tonight the bar-lounge has its old-time Saigon look intact. A second bar lounge in the rear is finished too with just one table occupied on Saturday night. I can’t understand why the place isn’t jumping till I go on line and discover that Yelpers (Yelp.com) don’t like the food. Is that an internet consensus? Who are these people? The vox populi of the plastic fork set?
I’m just going to assume you’re reading this because you trust me. Tonight I try not to be too bossy, but I’m eager to share dishes I love: The sensational summer rolls (I wish they came with with herbs and lettuce wraps), lush short rib on lemongrass skewers, and salt and pepper sweetbreads with a pickled peach. My favorite duck hash with mellow chunks of daikon pancake and a perfect poached egg to pierce with a fork has all of us swooning. We ask for an extra lamb chop so everyone can drag a rare lamb lollypop through cilantro salsa. Tonight we’re tasting Tiger shrimp salad with shaved fennel rather than the usual peel-and-eat chili shrimp I like even better.
The Road Food Warrior and I focus on small plates not just because I’m an infamous pinch penny but also because starters seem more Vietnamese than main courses – which aren’t really that expensive at $16 to $27 for a whole red snapper. Grilled American Wagyu hanger steak, Mekong Delta seafood clay pot, and bean-curd glazed black cod with preserved lemon are favorites. Vietnamese churros with sesame and two dipping sauces is the chef’s newest fusion. These are a bit greasy. A better choice is kabocha squash flan with water chestnut tapioca and red wine puree or pandam (vanilla) flan with Chinese red dates and gingko nuts.
BarBao is exactly what I hoped for in the Upper West Side restaurant renaissance and it’s half a mile from my pad. If only they would deliver.
Copyright Gael Greene, 2008
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How much does a quick release skewer for the front wheel cost?
I looked at amazon.com and they range from $6 to $40.
Are they all the same? Are there different ones for road bikes and mountain bikes. Which one do I buy?
there are different lengths. It depends on the width of your hub. They are basically the same for mountain and road bikes.
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ebay $135
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