Rear wheel moving over in dropout

[MichaelW2]

Titanium has a very tough surface and you need all the grip you can get from the advised proper qr skewers.
Usually vertical dropouts are shaped so the axle butts up against the forward edge and any pulling forward can be resisted by the dropout. Sloping slots encourage the axle to drift unless kept firmly in place.
I use horizontal dropouts in steel and have never experienced drifting axle

 

[Dogtrousers]

I use horizontal dropouts in steel and have never experienced drifting axle

I used to get this problem with my steel bike. I thought it was just an occupational hazard of using QRs with horizontal dropouts, until I mashed the low quality QR I was using to death (and I'm hardly Charles Atlas). I replaced it with a lovely Shimano internal cam QR and the problems ceased.

 

[Blue Hills]

Does some kind soul have a pic/diagram which shows the difference between internal cam and the other sort?

Not something I have ever given much thought but I think I'm about to be educated.

 

[fossyant]

Does some kind soul have a pic/diagram which shows the difference between internal cam and the other sort?

Not something I have ever given much thought but I think I'm about to be educated.

Internal, basically there is a nut on one end, and the lever goes straight into it - you don't see a cam.

 

[fossyant]

Like this

 

[ColinJ]

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Like this

As opposed to this...

 

[Blue Hills]

Duly educated

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Here you go you bunch of lazy slackers.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Here you go you bunch of lazy slackers.

"Never close a quick release wheel by rotating the lever in the dropouts"

I've seen a few people who thought that was how you did it - and none would believe me when I told them it was wrong.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

"Never close a quick release wheel by rotating the lever in the dropouts"

I've seen a few people who thought that was how you did it - and none would believe me when I told them it was wrong.

That's nothing, I have come across people who think a hub hangs from the top spokes.

 

[rogerzilla]

Confusingly, DT now use something on their hubs that looks like a QR but is actually a wingnut with only one wing. It's spring-loaded so you can even leave it to rest in the same position as a QR lever. They must reckon people are too stupid to use a real QR these days.

Among Campag nerds, the 1960s straight levers are preferred, probably because they were banned by the American CPSC and are therefore cool.

 

[Ian H]

"Lawyers' lips" are partially responsible for people learning to tighten skewers the wrong way.

My Ti frame suffered from rear axle movement (mostly just a creak). I completely solved it by using security skewers as illustrated by Raleighnut.

 

[rogerzilla]

That's nothing, I have come across people who think a hub hangs from the top spokes.

It does, if you remove all the spokes except the top ones!

 

[Smokin Joe]

"Lawyers' lips" are partially responsible for people learning to tighten skewers the wrong way.

Five minutes with a file and lawyer lips are no more.

 

[Blue Hills]

Five minutes with a file and lawyer lips are no more.

But what's the point of removing them?