Keep Your Through Axle Away From Me
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Keep Your Through Axle Away From Me
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Those shoes are really blue.
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I've been warning people about this for years, but does anyone listen?
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In summary, we may conclude that there is no part of a bicycle, including such innocent-seeming structures as levers and baby bolts, which cannot cause grievous harm to the rider or nearby people and objects in the event of a crash.
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Standard first aid practice for a puncture wound where the impaled object is still in place, is to leave it there until medical personnel arrive. If it has struck an artery, then yes, you can bleed out by removing it. While possibly overly cautious, he did the right thing.
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Wouldn't dissuade me from a given product, unless the product itself showed a solid propensity to injure or fail.
As you say, most any part of a bike and one's gear can be involved in injury, in the event of a crash. All it takes is falling hard enough, or Murphy watching.
BTDT, on a handful of occasions over the decades, with other parts of the bike, with the ground, with tree branches, with the old elongated "tail fins" from 1950s/1960s GM cars, etc.
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Will you guys stop with the graphic photos in links! I'm a huge blood/gore wuss, and now I feel sick.
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Standard first aid practice for a puncture wound where the impaled object is still in place, is to leave it there until medical personnel arrive. If it has struck an artery, then yes, you can bleed out by removing it. While possibly overly cautious, he did the right thing.
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There are two choices:
1. speed and convenience in removing the axle/skewer, with a potential additional risk of injury
2. an axle/skewer that requires a tool for removal, and has no "stabby bits"
Take your choice. I have bolt-on skewers on both my road bike (Control Tech Ti) and my wife's bike (PZ Racing) because flats are infrequent, it doesn't matter that it takes an extra 30 seconds to remove the wheel, and bolt-ons save something like 1W.
If racing (of any kind) becomes totally safe, it will become boring at the same time. Because going as fast as you possibly can carries inherent risk.
1. speed and convenience in removing the axle/skewer, with a potential additional risk of injury
2. an axle/skewer that requires a tool for removal, and has no "stabby bits"
Take your choice. I have bolt-on skewers on both my road bike (Control Tech Ti) and my wife's bike (PZ Racing) because flats are infrequent, it doesn't matter that it takes an extra 30 seconds to remove the wheel, and bolt-ons save something like 1W.
If racing (of any kind) becomes totally safe, it will become boring at the same time. Because going as fast as you possibly can carries inherent risk.
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Standard first aid practice for a puncture wound where the impaled object is still in place, is to leave it there until medical personnel arrive. If it has struck an artery, then yes, you can bleed out by removing it. While possibly overly cautious, he did the right thing.
Yeah, SOP, & the line about bleeding out reflects the riders concern, even if that risk looks low, from an arm-chair perspective.
I got a huge splinter through my finger once, & went to a clinic to have it removed, but later thought I should have just taken some pliers & pulled it out.
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Chuck Norris would have gotten up, gotten a new bike and finished the race with the wheel and fork still sticking out of his leg. And won. Just sayin'.
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This is why I use only Dura Ace internal cam conventional quick-release skewers on my Ben Hur hubs.
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So, other than being on the other side of the bike, what is the effective difference between a through axle lever and a QR lever? How is one more inherently dangerous?
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Trying to understand how a thru-axle lever differs from a conventional quick release lever in terms of the potential for injury.
(edit - haha beat me to it ^^^ )
(edit - haha beat me to it ^^^ )