The wheel will not fit into the fork assembly on the bike.
Sometimes during shipping the box gets squashed resulting in bent forks. Use a scissor car jack or reversable clamp to widen forks to correct width. Use cardboard to protect paintwork. This will work as long as forks are not too badly damaged.
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hi,
When you try to put the wheel in, is it getting caught on the brake, if it is, the brake caliper unhooks from the cable
Are the forks bent, you can tell because if one of the fork legs line up with one side but not the other then the chance are that the forks have been bent somehow.
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sounds like the box may have been squashed. send it back to where you got it from or its not that hard to spread the forks apart by pulling them. used to do this all the time when servicing mountain style bikes that have been thrashed by customers :)
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One solution, is a large, wedge shaped piece of wood.
Try hammering that into, or the forks onto it.
That should open them up, without damaging the finish.
Good luck with that.
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You mean somebody stepped on it in the crate? Give it a pull apart while stepping on it, make it fit, the fork needs to go in between the bearing race and the nut. Make sure the bearings are not tight, not loose either. Hope this helps.
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