Thank goodness for lawyers' tabs

Roastie
Roastie Posts: 1,968
edited June 2009 in Commuting chat
The front end of the workhorse had started to make funny clunking noises. The headset was perfect and everything else was screwed on, so I was a bit confused. There was a bit of play on the wheel whih felt like loose bearings, but I wouldn't have expected it to make these sorts of noises.

So, Saturday morning I rolled the bike out and shook the front around to try to find the noise, the something made me check the anti-theft QR thingie. It was *quite* loose. Ah.

The springiness of the fork was also just enough to keep the "QR" from rattling, which explains why it wasn't immediately obvious. For the first time I was thankful for what are usually just annoying "timewasters".
David
Engineered Bicycles

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  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Strange I found nearly the same thing but mine became apparent at 30mph. Thought it to be 'speed wobble' until I checked.
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    How many people will now check their QR before the journey home.

    They've saved me numerous times on my MTB :lol:
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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    please forgive my ignorance - but what are lawyer's tabs?

    PBo
  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    Thank goodness for lawyers' tabs


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  • Stuey01
    Stuey01 Posts: 1,273
    Lawyers tabs are the little metal tabs on the bottom of your fork that stop the wheel from falling straight out when you release the QR. You'll find that you need to release the QR then loosen it a couple of turns before it falls out.
    They are there to prevent the accidental loss of your front wheel.

    I believe they are called lawyers tabs because fork manufacturers started adding them after there was a court case attempting to sue the manufacturers of a set of forks that some poor geezer's front wheel had ejected from.
    Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,716
    I hate them damn things. Going to file them off one one of my bikes.
  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    whyamihere wrote:
    I hate them damn things. Going to file them off one one of my bikes.

    Tsk tsk - wait till the health and safety police see you - you'll be forced to ride a shopper for the next ten years 8)

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