Paging the FOAK

On 30/09/2008 06:36, Tosspot said,

And yes, I have mangled one, not the first either, so a packet of 1/2
dozen would keep me going into my dotage.

Personally, I wouldn't bother. They do bugger all except hold your
skewer central when putting the wheel in. Not the most difficult thing
to manage without a spring :-)

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

Paul Boyd wrote:
On 30/09/2008 06:36, Tosspot said,

And yes, I have mangled one, not the first either, so a packet of 1/2
dozen would keep me going into my dotage.

Personally, I wouldn't bother. They do bugger all except hold your
skewer central when putting the wheel in. Not the most difficult thing
to manage without a spring :-)

It offends the perfectionist in me. Well, ok, more like they were there
when I started and I have nightmares about spontaneous explosions of
bike parts due to lack of said 'volute springs'.

On 9/30/2008 10:42 AM Paul Boyd wrote:

On 30/09/2008 06:36, Tosspot said,

And yes, I have mangled one, not the first either, so a packet of 1/2
dozen would keep me going into my dotage.

Personally, I wouldn't bother. They do bugger all except hold your
skewer central when putting the wheel in. Not the most difficult thing
to manage without a spring :-)


You apparently haven't seen me working on my bikes . . . .

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel"
Bend, Oregon

Tosspot wrote:
Those little spirally spring spacer thingies that do some voodo stuff
for QR skewers. What the **** are they called before I break Google
completely with spazzed out search arguments?

And yes, I have mangled one, not the first either, so a packet of 1/2
dozen would keep me going into my dotage.

vestigial - don't cry and toss the other spring.

In team racing, those conical or volute springs keep the skewer centered
so the support tech can throw a wheel in without looking, saving a tenth
of a second on a wheel change. Nothing more.
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

On Sep 30, 6:22*pm, A Muzi wrote:
Tosspot wrote:
Those little spirally spring spacer thingies that do some voodo stuff
for QR skewers. *What the **** are they called before I break Google
completely with spazzed out search arguments?

And yes, I have mangled one, not the first either, so a packet of 1/2
dozen would keep me going into my dotage.

vestigial - don't cry and toss the other spring.

In team racing, those conical or volute springs keep the skewer centered
so the support tech can throw a wheel in without looking, saving a tenth
of a second on a wheel change. Nothing more.
--
Andrew Muzi
* www.yellowjersey.org/
* Open every day since 1 April, 1971
** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com**

And don't ya love it when a customer comes in, shortly after changing
their own cogset(tighten it for them!!), and see that their wheel is
no longer centered in the frame..wha happened??

QR spring on backwards...

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 05:47:25 -0700 (PDT)
Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:

And don't ya love it when a customer comes in, shortly after changing
their own cogset(tighten it for them!!),

Why would they need someone to tighten it for them if they managed to
remove it themselves?

Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:

QR spring on backwards...
I just saw that on a guy's C40! :-)

Derk