Howdy

I went out to spend some time on my bike this afternoon, and the rear tire had a leak!  Its fast enough of a leak that I can't ride it into the shop, so I have to remove the wheel..

I removed the two tensioners on either side, the bolt, etc, and went to try to remove the wheel, but the belt really doesn't want to get out of the way.  It took a lot of work but I eventually got it off the pully, but now its in the way to keep me from getting the wheel off (the guard on top wont let it get out of the way enough.)

Is there any trick to get the belt off?  I looked in the manual, and it just tells you to remove it, it doesn't tell you how..

Thanks

Been a while, but I think I get the brake assembly out first then tilt the wheel over so the pulley will drop out of the way. I use an old scissors jack under the muffler bracket to lift the bike. Need a front wheel holding fixture like Greg 650 describes to keep it straight up and down and from fallng over. Max

Yep, I got it out of there, I made a pretty stupid mistake.  I'm used to bicycle wheels, where there's a C groove that the axle slides into, once I realized that that wasn't how this axle was, I realized I had to remove the axle itself, and the rest was a snap.  Doh!

Is there anything I need to be careful with to make sure that I put it back on straight and not end up causing trouble with the belt?  Sorry to ask so many questions, the manual for the bike has instructions for these things, but they're written very, very poorly..

"I removed the two tensioners on either side, the bolt, etc". Good old Assume, I interpeted bolt to = axle so didn't remind him about that. Max