Originally Posted by
zaxmalloy
Yeah, never thought I'd own a brown bike but it's something in the sunlight. Interesting about that skewer, on the
Salsa site it shows the white version with the front skewer mounted one way and the brown version the other. What influence does it have either way?
Some shops and assemblers have started mounting the QR lever on the drive side (on disc brake bikes) because customers have taken to using the front brake rotor for leverage to close the skewer, bending the rotor. It makes no difference which side the lever is on.