I was browsing through a Gearshift catalogue this morning as displacement activity to avoid having to do any actual work, and noticed a quick release skewer '...designed to counter front wheel ejection arguable caused by disk brake forces'. The thing is called a 'Neuvation Disk Skewer' and is similar to this: <URL:http://www.neuvationcycling.com/NeuvationCycling04/Skewers.htm>. Note that it's also designed with especially long throw precisely to defeat lawyer lips.
The skewer has an interlock button which must be depressed before the quick release can be opened. There is '...a set screw on the adjusting nut...' which is apparently intended to prevent vibration unscrewing.
I had to admit I was skeptical when I first saw this, but actually it looks like quite a well thought through attempt at a solution for current generation bikes which don't have through axles. Worth trying, anyway.
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I was browsing through a Gearshift catalogue this morning as displacement activity to avoid having to do any actual work, and noticed a quick release skewer '...designed to counter front wheel ejection arguable caused by disk brake forces'. The thing is called a 'Neuvation Disk Skewer' and is similar to this: <URL:http://www.neuvationcycling.com/NeuvationCycling04/Skewers.htm>. Note that it's also designed with especially long throw precisely to defeat lawyer lips.
The skewer has an interlock button which must be depressed before the quick release can be opened. There is '...a set screw on the adjusting nut...' which is apparently intended to prevent vibration unscrewing.
I had to admit I was skeptical when I first saw this, but actually it looks like quite a well thought through attempt at a solution for current generation bikes which don't have through axles. Worth trying, anyway.
Yes, I saw that and thought it might be A Good Thing if disk brakes are involved. I guess that you still have to be very sure that you've tightened it enough before locking lever over though - I'm not exactly sure just how tight such things should be really, and tend to err on the over tight side, but then worry I might end up damaging something.
I was browsing through a Gearshift catalogue this morning as displacement activity to avoid having to do any actual work, and noticed a quick release skewer '...designed to counter front wheel ejection arguable caused by disk brake forces'. The thing is called a 'Neuvation Disk Skewer' and is similar to this: <URL:http://www.neuvationcycling.com/NeuvationCycling04/Skewers.htm>. Note that it's also designed with especially long throw precisely to defeat lawyer lips.
The skewer has an interlock button which must be depressed before the quick release can be opened. There is '...a set screw on the adjusting nut...' which is apparently intended to prevent vibration unscrewing.
I had to admit I was skeptical when I first saw this, but actually it looks like quite a well thought through attempt at a solution for current generation bikes which don't have through axles. Worth trying, anyway.
It's still an exposed cam type.
"Considerably inferior in functionality to the traditional type"
"The exposed cam type provides very much less clamping force for a given amount of hand force on the lever." - www.sheldonbrown.com/skewers.html
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I was browsing through a Gearshift catalogue this morning as displacement activity to avoid having to do any actual work, and noticed a quick release skewer '...designed to counter front wheel ejection arguable caused by disk brake forces'. The thing is called a 'Neuvation Disk Skewer' and is similar to this: <URL:http://www.neuvationcycling.com/NeuvationCycling04/Skewers.htm>. Note that it's also designed with especially long throw precisely to defeat lawyer lips.
The skewer has an interlock button which must be depressed before the quick release can be opened. There is '...a set screw on the adjusting nut...' which is apparently intended to prevent vibration unscrewing.
I had to admit I was skeptical when I first saw this, but actually it looks like quite a well thought through attempt at a solution for current generation bikes which don't have through axles. Worth trying, anyway.
James has seen it - we had a private e-discussion about it a while ago. The guy who's marketing it has been aware of the issue for a very long time but it's only since my accident and James's campaigning that the market has woken up and a demand been created.
A decent attempt but the real solution still remains the redesign of the fork lowers and the repositioning of the brake calipers
