Originally Posted by Salamandrine

Note that the photo of Eddy and De Vlaeminck at the top of that page was carefully cropped to avoid showing that Eddy ran his front skewer horizontal and pointed back. As I said, this was the most common position in C&V days, and this is a C&V forum. Also, positioning it across the fork as the velominati describe makes it difficult to grab. Keep pedaling down those Minnesota mountains dudes.