Originally Posted by
The Figment
My skewer is bent also,but I pull a lot of weight,The retainer pins broke so I replaced them with Stainless retaining pins from "BigBox" Home Improvement, and I'm jus gonna get a sturdier wheel.....
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Do you have the part number and/or name of the "retainer pin"???
While bicycling in Australia a couple of years ago I lost one of the pins and bought a box of cotter (split) pins to use in case I lost/broke my spare retainer pin. I did not want to pay BOB's price for spring wire nor did I want to wait in the Outback for the pins to come by airmail from the USA. Now that I am driving into the USA soon I could easily get some - if I knew the name of the part at "Home Improvement" (if that is the actual name of the store..