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I'm gonna show you how to easily remove and install
the kickstand from a vintage Schwinn bike. To remove this kickstand we need to
remove this little pin here.
To do that, we have to push this little ring here in,
which will relieve pressure on the pin. There's a little spring back in here, so it's
all spring-loaded.
Now to remove the kickstand, Schwinn makes a specialized tool
that is like a lever. It levers off the kickstand and it pushes this little ring
in to relieve the pressure on the pin.
But what I'm going to use is just a 10-inch Crescent wrench. I'm gonna slide the
handle
over the kickstand. Use it as a lever to push that ring in.
And then I can just easily pull the pin out.
I can release the pressure and then just slide the kick stand out.
Now to reinstall, I just slide the Crescent wrench handle
over the kickstand like that. Slide it into place. And what we want to do
is we want to compress it so that this little notch
in his part here, lines up this hole here. So
I go ahead and compress it down and I can just drop this pin
into place. Release the pressure there.
Slide this off. And so now the kickstand is all installed.
And that's all there is to it. I hope this helps!