|   Ever have a QR skewer break on you??? | PmbH
Aug 9, 2002 10:03 AM | | I was getting ready for a ride last night. Put on the shoes, helmet, grab the bike off the roof rack and put on the front wheel..... SNAP! The QR lever fell off in my hand... The skewer broke right at the junction. Closer inspection revealed a little rust, but c'mon, these wheels are only 16 months old! These are a set of Rolf wheels that came on a Trek (Cracked that frame, by the way.. Not a lot of good luck here) and they haven't been ridden a whole lot. I was really surprised to see the skewer break. Anyhow, I luckily had one old-school-style Yakima tray on my roof rack, and I pirated the skewer off the rack to do the ride. I'm replacing both tonight. |
| yup | club
Aug 9, 2002 1:29 PM | | but always in the shop, never yet on the trail. even so, I carry a spare rear q/r with a spacer so it also works in front, on backcountry rides, as there's no good way to thin-air-repair a busted one. Saw a guy try to hold on his front wheel using spokes, it didn't work.
Sometimes the levers come disconnected from the end, more often the cut threads on the non-lever side break -- threads are awesome stress risers. Broken both steel and ti skewers, boutique and even an old Campy.
I use a q/r with my SS 2-sp., and since I open and close it for every "shift" I carry a spare q/r with me on the SS, just in case.
Good emergency skewer: A Control Tech allen-wrench-activated skewer is easiest to carry along, wrap the skewer with tape so it doesn't rattle and carry it in your handlebar, and the two ends in your tool bag. |
| Yup - No big surprise here | JFR
Aug 9, 2002 4:44 PM | | I don't think there's anything I haven't broken or bent...
I broke a '99 Specilized standard skewer earlier this year. Replaced it w/ a Sram, nice skewer. |
| I bet you've never broken a... | Biking Viking
Aug 10, 2002 9:59 AM | | ...hub axle.
Or then again, you probably have.
BV |
| broken hub axles, yup | club
Aug 10, 2002 11:32 AM | | but I'm happy to say, never on a MTB. I've broken probably a half dozen on road hubs over the decades, all threaded hubs, not freehubs. If/when you detect a broken axle, you'll notice lots of play in the rim, like the cones are really loose. At that point, do not, repeat, do not open the q/r to remove the wheel to check it out. The q/r is holding the axle halves together, if you remove the wheel, the axle halves drop out along with 9 ball bearings per side, then you're looking for loose balls in the weeds. Instead, keep riding, get home before messing with the wheel at all. On a similar theme, noticed my shimano freehub was dragging the other day towards the end of the ride, the chain would continue going when coasting until the lower chain run pulled it tight. got home, removed the axle, was about to remove the body with a 10mm to flush and relube it, when the top half of the body came loose in my hand. Cracked clean thru. But was able to ride it home ok, and had done a bunch of way steep climbing earlier. |
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