Carbon dropouts on forks

Brian B

Looking for some guidance and probably some reassurance from people who have carbon dropouts on their forks. I have a brand new bike with these forks and I presume some faint bite marks is completely normal and that hand tight without applying too much pressure is enough to prevent any real damage but also tight enough to prevent any motion that could induce wear.

sungod

tighten exactly the same as for an alloy dropout

the surface coat may get some marks from serrations on the qr, but that's not a problem

a loose qr slipping and abrading the dropout is more likely to cause damage than over-tightening

Brian B

Thanks Sungod, you know what it is like with a new bike

mm1

Have some Easton forks with carbon dropouts on one of my bikes, 10 years old and still like new. Nothing to worry about.

Monty Dog

Carbon drop-outs are solid material and hugely over-built - apart from riding around with the QR loose and fretting the material - hopefully you'd notice the wobbly wheel - there's little you could do during normal riding that would affect them.

goonz

what bike u got?

Brian B

My new bike is the Van Nic Astraeus with the VNT SLR carbon fork (with carbon dropouts). Have got carbon dropouts on my Storck but they have an alloy clamping face.

Thanks for all replies.

mfin

They'll be fine as long as you don't do up the QR at all.

(Of course they'll be fine, just treat them the same as you would any other fork).