I bent a skewer?
06-06-08, 04:19 PM
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I bent a skewer?
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I went on a ride today, and when I was loading the bike onto the car, I removed the front wheel. As I unscrewed the skewer I noticed the nut was wobbling. I pulled it out and indeed, the metal skewer was bowed.
How does this happen? The skewer doesn't bear any weight, it just holds the dropouts against the axle. Or so I thought. I'm not an experienced mtn biker, but I did hit a couple of "drops" and such on the ride. Not super aggressive, but I was knocking it around.
Bike is an 05 Giant Trance 2
Wheels are DT Swiss hubs (cheapest ones they make, maybe "centri"), and Mavic 317 rims. Fork is a Reba SL.
I don't get it, but any advice on how not to do it again would be great. I don't think I bottomed out the fork. I weigh ~170 (plus camelbak and shoes, etc) and have the pressure in the fork up to ~115psi.
Thanks
I went on a ride today, and when I was loading the bike onto the car, I removed the front wheel. As I unscrewed the skewer I noticed the nut was wobbling. I pulled it out and indeed, the metal skewer was bowed.
How does this happen? The skewer doesn't bear any weight, it just holds the dropouts against the axle. Or so I thought. I'm not an experienced mtn biker, but I did hit a couple of "drops" and such on the ride. Not super aggressive, but I was knocking it around.
Bike is an 05 Giant Trance 2
Wheels are DT Swiss hubs (cheapest ones they make, maybe "centri"), and Mavic 317 rims. Fork is a Reba SL.
I don't get it, but any advice on how not to do it again would be great. I don't think I bottomed out the fork. I weigh ~170 (plus camelbak and shoes, etc) and have the pressure in the fork up to ~115psi.
Thanks
06-06-08, 08:46 PM
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ive done it before but it was from running the front wheel striat in to a rock bent the skewer, bent the rim and bound up the hub. so other than not hitting objects at full speed i dont know.
06-06-08, 09:09 PM
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I could see it happening if the skewer was a tad too loose. How tight do you tighten it?
06-06-08, 11:56 PM
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more or less tight (no grunting, but significant force). I thought it was tight, but I guess maybe not tight enough.
