| Title: | Bicycling |
| Notice: | Bicycling for Fun |
| Moderator: | JAMIN::WASSER |
| Created: | Mon Apr 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3214 |
| Total number of notes: | 31946 |
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1193.1 | find someone who knows to verify you know how... | SUSHI::KMACDONALD | Is there life after drywall? | Mon Jun 05 1989 20:23 | 17 |
> It just seems to me if indeed I did not have the quick release on
> correctly it would have failed *MUCH* sooner then it did. Has
> anyone out there seen it take so long for a quick
> release that wasn't on correctly to fall off? Am I wrong, does it
The most common mode of failure for an incorrectly installed/fastened QR
is to fail LONG after it's put on, unfortunately. Seeing as you have a
question as to whether it was on correctly or not, it sounds like you
should probably find someone who KNOWS to show you how to fasten a QR
properly, just to verify for the future whether you are doing it right.
Go to a good shop and ask them to demo it for you. Unfortunately, in
some cases, spouses, SO's and other well-meaning fokes THINK they know
how, because THEIR wheel hasn't ever fallen off, and will tell you wrong
all over again. There's one right way to install a QR and at least one
wrong way, the right method will hold your wheel in forever, and the
other method could hold it for a long time :-).
ken
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| 1193.2 | Check the skewer | CESARE::JOHNSON | Me? Opinionated? | Mon Jun 05 1989 20:37 | 6 |
Also make sure the skewer isn't bent. If it is, you can "tighten"
your QR hubs, and they'll still work themselves loose quickly because
the caps aren't seated right on the dropouts. (Even after cranking
down hard on an old QR lever once, I managed to pull my rear wheel
out of alignment at the start of a TT. I wanted to claim it was
because of my locomotive power, but the truth won out....)
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| 1193.3 | Point lever rearwards | TALLIS::JBELL | Ceci n'est pas une pipe. | | Tue Jun 06 1989 14:23 | 5 |
You might want to chwck that when you lock the QR, you do it so
that the lever points towards the back. The lever can catch
on underbrush and get opened while riding.
-Jeff Bell
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| 1193.4 | Parts: Innocent till proven guilty. | RAINBO::WASSER | John A. Wasser | Tue Jun 06 1989 17:53 | 18 |
> My front wheel fell off. > I'm saying it was a faulty quick release or the axle bent causing the wheel > to come off. If the quick-release was faulty then it should still be faulty... It would be bent or stretched. Is there anything wrong with it? If the axle was bent then it should still be bent... Look down the center hole with the quick-release removed and turn the axle. If it is bent you should notice it. If it is not bent then you can't blame the axle. A twisted fork blade might prevent the quick-release from clamping properly. If you can find no faulty part then the quick-release was not closed properly. | |||||