Originally Posted by
Velocivixen
None of my bikes with 126mm spacing came with QR. They're bolt on. Was it even that common during that time to have QR skewers?
Tullio Campagnolo is credited with inventing the QR skewer in 1930, and marketing QR equipped hub in 1933.
All of my 126mm hubs have QRs, including Campy Record, Chorus, C-Record (all ~1986-1988), M23 (1986), and even the cheap Maillard hubs that came as standard equipment on my 1986 Peugeot. The last bike I had without QRs was my old <cough>
huffy<cough>.
Although technically, the Vitus didn't come with QRs... it didn't come with wheels, I bought it as a bare frame and built the wheels myself.
All of the riders I knew in high school had QRs. And clipless pedals - it was the dawn of the clipless era (Look and Time were the bee's knees) That brief period of time when the 7 speed freewheels, aero bars and cable routing, and index shifting were all on the bleeding edge. (Note: Synchro I, SGR-1, and Delta brakes were all giving Campy headaches also).
And that's where we were in 1986-1988.
