Questions About Fixing Old Colson Tricycle
Q: With regards to my Colson Tri Cycle the Size of the back tire is 14 x 1.75 I have a couple of questions?
1. The rim have a place for an inner tube, can one be put on the rim and if so do you have any tubes and tires?
2. Do you have any new Spokes for that size of the Wheel and what is the cost, also what is the length of the spokes?
3. Do you have the bearing’s for the wheels and what is the cost?
A: I will try to answer your questions, but the easiest answer is to just take your tricycle to your local bicycle shop. They will have spokes, bearings, tubes and tires, or will be able to special order them.
1. Are you sure that your tricycle takes an inner tube? Are you sure it isn’t a pneumatic tire rim? You can read our post on types of tricycle tires if you aren’t sure.
2. The spokes we currently have in stock are listed in our online catalog. The easiest thing to do is simply measure the old spokes to get the length. If you for some reason do not have any of the old spokes, you’ll need to just take it to a bicycle shop and have them build you one. Because if you don’t know how to measure for spokes, you probably don’t know how to build a wheel.
3. We have bearings for press-in type hubs where the bearings in their casing are pressed into the hub. These can be found in our online catalog in the sizes that we offer. If some cases you can use loose ball bearings and others you can use bearings with a retainer, it all depends on what type of tricycle and wheels that you have. Again, the simplest thing to do is to take it to your local bicycle shop and ask them. Once they have the tricycle in front of them, they should be able to answer all of the questions and get you the parts. They probably won’t be able to get you pneumatic tires if that’s what they turn out to be – and you may be in for a long hard and expensive look trying to find a set of those.
