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[Venod]

QR’s with 9mm skewers were quickly replaced with through axles are fork suspension travel increased, as they couldn’t provide sufficient torsional rigidity.

The pictures are nice and you have experience of improvement with a through axle, but a tight QR should does the same job its just holding the wheel rigid in the forks if the axle was solid with nuts fitted in QR dropouts it would also be as stiff as a through axle, I stated earlier I saw no difference, at the moment I am running a Lefty and that feels the same as any other bike I have ridden, no flex

 

[marzjennings]

The pictures are nice and you have experience of improvement with a through axle, but a tight QR should does the same job its just holding the wheel rigid in the forks if the axle was solid with nuts fitted in QR dropouts it would also be as stiff as a through axle, I stated earlier I saw no difference, at the moment I am running a Lefty and that feels the same as any other bike I have ridden, no flex

I’ve never seen a QR with a 9mm hollow axle hold as tight as a solid axle with nuts. Hence why track bikes don’t use a QR on horizontal drop outs. Plus your lefty, a great fork, is a tapered 25-15mm through axle which would be impossible to replicate using a QR like system.

I should also mention I weigh about 17stone and when I first build up a mtb with horizontal dropouts I had to fit a tugnut to hold the wheel in place. Again the QR, regardless of how hard I tightened it, wouldn’t hold the wheel in place.