Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 18,146
Bikes: Stewart S&S coupled sport tourer, Stewart Sunday light, Stewart Commuting, Stewart Touring, Co Motion Tandem, Stewart 3-Spd, Stewart Track, Fuji Finest, Mongoose Tomac ATB, GT Bravado ATB, JCP Folder, Stewart 650B ATB
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 4233 Post(s)
Lawer lips and tabbed retention washers are like having an alarm system for your store. It won't stop the problem (axle slipping in the dropout) but just reduce the severity of the results. keeping the axle secured is the best answer and a through axle design does best here. If you must keep a QR skewered axle use the best skewer you can get.
I've only made a few disk braked forks and while my home made dropouts do have a recessed clamping surface (lawyer lips of sort) I use quality QR skewers (enclosed cam, steel) and haven't yet had any slipping axle issues. Andy
__________________
AndrewRStewart