Originally Posted by
PepeM
My wife's gravel bike (aka my future gravel bike) has through axles. What do I need to do to make the levers point the right way? Currently the front one points downward when fully tightened and I can't seem to align it in any other way.
Some of them are that way. There are others that are like pseudo QRs that you can orient any direction. With Rock Shox Maxles, for instance, the lever can rotate freely, then you put it in a channel to actually turn the axle.