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Originally Posted by FlashBazbo
In decades of riding, I've never had this problem. Now, I find that both my month-old titanium skewers work themselves loose during a ride. They don't open -- the tension knob seems to back off. Last week, the rear skewer backed off just enough to create a creak. Just a nuisance. But this weekend, after 100 miles, the front skewer had lost enough tension that my front wheel was oscillating in the dropouts at speed. It sounded as if the road had tiny, uniform grooves cut across it. The wheel didn't fall out of the dropouts and I wasn't close to losing control, but the wheel was very loose.


How do you fix this problem? I COULD drag my old Mavic QR's out of my wheel bag, but would rather fix these, if I can.
If it's an external cam skewer, I make sure it's clean and add a little wax on the cam portion. This makes it easier to tighten with higher pressure.
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