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I've currently got a rear QR skewer on a dirt jump bike (horizontal dropouts) with the tensioners.
Problem is, when I brake, it's pulling the wheel to one side in the dropout. Cheapest options would be to convert it to a solid axle with nuts, but I'm not sure what I need to buy.
Easiest (and most expensive) solution would be a shiny new rear wheel!
Any ideas? 🙂
Run a chain tug on each side 😉
That's what they're called! 🙂
I have got chain tugs on either side, but it still moves due to QR not having enough grip.
A solid rear axle would be easy to fit.
Wheels manufactureing make some good ones which used to be available through madison ( most lbs )
10x1 maybe about 180mm long but measure your frame and remember to add enough for the wheel nuts.
For wheel nuts get some grip fast ones with the captive but not fixed washer
Or just try a decent Shimano deore qr
Easy to do and very reliable. Weldtite do a range of cheap cromoly ones for a tenner. Halfords often have them in stock. Also Wheels Manufacturing.
M10x1 thread I think (but check to be sure). Use your original Shimano cones and locknut / spacers. Will need to be 135mm + dropout thickness + extra for nuts on both sides and chain tugs if you keep them.
Edit-beaten to it!
Cheers for the comments guys, it does seem pretty straight forward.
Looks like Simply Bearings actually do axles! One of these should fit? It would be handy as I could walk around and pick it up on my dinner hour too 🙂
The QR skewer is a Hope one, but I've heard the Shimano ones are a lot better.
https://simplybearings.co.uk/shop/Cycling-/-Biking-Axles/c5409_5410/index.html
Shimano qrs are better. If you have two chain tugs correctly set up you shouldn't be getting movement.
Nuts are still better than any qr. And depending on caliper position, the brake reaction force can be rearwards, making a chain tug pretty ineffective for stopping slipping under braking.
I think the brake is tugging the wheel in the opposite direction that the tugs prevent, that's why it's slipping I think.