Originally Posted by
Tomo_Ishi
Don't listen to that. For one thing, your ends gonna get chewed up. Ends are hardened steel, but that doesn't mean it's indestructible. It can get chewed by axle nuts and axle lock nuts which are as hard. More importantly, tightening the crap out of it, you might crack the axle lock nuts. That's gonna be a booboo to fix, because spares need to be ordered and stuff.
... I ought to know. I chewed up my ends.
... And destroyed my axle lock nuts. I had to replace em.
Right on. After years of work on bikes and cars I know better than to over-torque nuts and bolts.
For those who are confused of why this is happening, it has only occurred twice to me during hard efforts when I probably took up some slack momentarily before stomping on the pedals. This is not a common occurrence for me.