Today I installed a hub guard onto my bike. It was freaking impossible. It took like 10 minutes to get the locknut off and then the bearings in my rear hub (on the drive side) got all fucked up because the cone ring was locked so tightly to the locknut that I couldn't get them off separately. In the process of getting the locknut off, the cone ring on the other side of the hub which is what tightens the wheel up spun a little bit. So now I have to try to get the spin to wobble ratio back on point (tighten too much, wheel doesn't spin, loosen a TINY bit, wheel wobbles like crazy) and this takes HOURS.
I got it pretty much as good it was going to get, then I put in my ghetto chain tensioner and for whatever reason, it's way too big now so my chain is waaaaaay too tight so the wheel isn't straight and now I can't get the tensioner out and then I realized the wheel was starting to wobble again because the tightening cone loosened up a tiny bit.
Fuck this shit I'm doing it tomorrow.
I blame the people who did my bike "check up" thing (at the place I got my bike, you can take the bike in 6 moths later for a check up and re-greasing, etc.). They made everything WAY too tight, I'm gonna die when I have to put new cranks on cause that will be even more impossible. And the worst part, they lost like 3 balls out of my back hub when they re-greased it, that's why it's impossible to get the wheel to stop wobbling without tightening it so much that it doesn't spin. In scootering, you can deal with a loose wheel. It may be un-dialed, but it's not weaker. Not the case with a bike. A loose wheel will get fucked.