Rear wheel QR: what wins races?
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Honestly, I went through a whole stack of old racing pictures, and the examples I found all happened to be World Champions. Granted, they tend to appear more often in pictures than the losers, but still.
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Nice to see those pics, non-fixie. I can't tell ya how much grief I've received over the years from folks telling me my front skewer lever is on the wrong side. "No, that's the right side," I reply.
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The premise of this thread is "Right wheel QR: what wins races?" Do you agree with that? Or do you agree, maybe, that many more of the unwashed masses with QRs on the right lost races?
Do you think the position of the QR has any causation effect on winning or losing?
Do you think the position of the QR has any causation effect on winning or losing?
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Interesting that the 1984 Campagnolo catalog has them shown on the drive side: https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site...18_page_7.html
But the 1984 Victory and Triomphe catalogs show them on the non-drive side: https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site...he_scan_2.html and https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site...ry_scan_2.html
Eddy had his on the non-drive side, so no further debate will be entered into:
But the 1984 Victory and Triomphe catalogs show them on the non-drive side: https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site...he_scan_2.html and https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site...ry_scan_2.html
Eddy had his on the non-drive side, so no further debate will be entered into:
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Interesting that the 1984 Campagnolo catalog has them shown on the drive side: https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site...18_page_7.html
But the 1984 Victory and Triomphe catalogs show them on the non-drive side: https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site...he_scan_2.html and https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site...ry_scan_2.html
Eddy had his on the non-drive side, so no further debate will be entered into:
But the 1984 Victory and Triomphe catalogs show them on the non-drive side: https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site...he_scan_2.html and https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site...ry_scan_2.html
Eddy had his on the non-drive side, so no further debate will be entered into:
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Just eye-balling it, if the lever is on the DS then it would interfere with the RD cable housing during installation and removal.
But then again with verification.
But then again with verification.
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In my experience doing tech support, the emphasis was on speed of wheel change. It was easier for me to pull the RD back to clear the freewheel, lift and drop the rear of the bike onto the axle, pull back with both hands while aligning the lever and close the QR with my left hand grabbing a stay. Too much stuff to work around and get caught in on the drive side. Goal was 8 seconds or less from dropping a rear wheel to roll out. Would have preset QRs for Campy or aluminum dropouts so no adjusting during a change.
Fronts as long as the lever was angled upward it was good.
Fronts as long as the lever was angled upward it was good.
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There's a great scene early on in "A Sunday in Hell" where Merckx can't find his Molteni team car in the race start area in time, so he borrows a wrench from the Brooklyn team car and quickly makes some minute adjustment to the seat height, tilt, or fore/aft. Sort of the cycling equivalent of "The Princess and the Pea."
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In a clip from La Course en Tete, Eddy pulls out a Campagnolo 5 mm Allen wrench and adjusts his saddle height up while racing.
the Best CPSC subversion I think was the bright idea to have the bike evaluated while the chain was in the big ring. Saved everyone so much anguish.
the Best CPSC subversion I think was the bright idea to have the bike evaluated while the chain was in the big ring. Saved everyone so much anguish.