Should i file off my tabs???
Should I file off the safety tabs on my forks so that my quick release wheels drop out easier or would this be dangerous and foolhardy?? I guess the pros do it by watching wheel changes on the TdF but how many C+ readers do it???
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I've done filed them away. Why have quick release wheels if opening the lever is only the first step to getting the wheel out?
For sure, crashing because you forgot to tighten up the Q/R is going to hurt but not having the tabs makes you check from time to time!
Oddly they're on the forks for the front wheel but many bikes have vertical dropouts for the rear wheel and you don't get them there. Given they are meant to stop a muppet from injuring himself, surely they are need on the back too in case the said fool does an endo, causing the rear wheel to fall out?
...unless, of course, you're thinking of the weight saving!
Not all forks have them ... and some commuter type bikes use a safety tab that slots over the axle with a spiggot that then locates in a hole in the dropout.
Personally I have no problem with them. It only takes a couple of seconds to release the QR an extra couple of turns.. as mentioned above...
Cheers, Phil
Which reminds me, I need to file 'em off my race forks. I just hate faffing the QR under pressure. If I wanted nearly-QR, I'd have brought along a bloody spanner.
Advice for kilted riders: top-tubes are cold.
If a team mate is struggling and you're going well when you puncture he may well decide to give up his wheel for you though. In which case lawyer lips can make all the difference.
Hypocrisy is only a bad thing in other people.
Wasn't there a thread recently which indicated that , theoretically anyway, you can be "done" by a commissaire for removing these tabs on the basis that you are "modifiying" a component?
Haven't seen the thread, not been on here for a while, but yes you're quite right. Modifying anything in a way which could affect safety is not allowed. However, i'm not at the kind of level where anyone would take issue with it.
In the pro peleton plenty of these regs are ignored, if you look at the close-up shots of pro's bikes from the tour there are a couple of things which are blatantly against the rules. Chopped down saddle noses on TT bikes is another one.
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It's only an issue with your wheel falling out when you do a wheely if you don't know how to use QRs properly. AFAIK all cases of front wheels coming out on road bikes have been down to incorrect use of the QR. They were designed to prevent manufacturers being sued by people who didn't use their QRs properly rather than as a benefit for those who do.
I shoud point out that somebody I knew well spent several weeks in hospital when his front wheel came out - but he didn't use the QR properly. I also spent 2 nights in hospital after a front wheel ejection incident, but that was on an MTB with disc brakes, where the issue is totally different. I wouldn't ride an MTB with disc brakes without tabs on the fork now (and would really prefer a bolt through axle), but have no hesitation about riding any of my fleet of road bikes, none of which have them, and fully intend to remove them if my new forks come with them.
As hinted at by ARACER It may be worth pointing out that under braking, the front wheel is pulled downwards (with disc brakes). This is not an issue with the back. And that quick release IS quicker and easier, than using tools.
Word. Apart from the weight part, you big weenie!
When I'm racing, I absolutely do not want to flip the QR, then spin it eight times, oh, or was it six - censored , it's not come out yet - ah there we go, nine and *ping!* the end falls off.
The Q is for Quick, after all.
Someone should file the tabs off a bunch of lawyers. That'd learn 'em. :evil:
Advice for kilted riders: top-tubes are cold.
+1million.
Has anyone successfully filed them off carbon forks? Any tips?
Lawyer lips are a pain in the ar$e, totally un-nesscessary unless you are a brain dead overweight American w@nker with the memory of a particularly stupid goldfish with advanced dementia.
File the b@stards off.