Thread: Spoke Protector Disk, AKA "Dork Disk"
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Old 02-16-10 | 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by datlas
Slightly off topic, but I saw a posting in another forum about "lawyer tabs" that are on forks to make riding "safer."

Apparently these prevent a front wheel from coming off if the QR is loose.

I had never even heard of these before, none of my bikes have them.

Are they now standard issue on road bikes, or only "low end" bikes for idiots who don't know to keep their QR tight??
They are on every bike sold in the US in the last 20 years or so. You may well have them and not even notice. It's just a little flange on the drop out that requires you to loosen the QR a few turns after opening it.

You can file them off if you have steel or aluminum dropouts.
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