> That pretty much scared me off of Pitlocks. Although if you live in > more temperate climates (or are better at maintenance) they are a nice > choice. (Also don't like only two keys. Prefer three. One to carry, > one for the shop, one in house as spare.)
Not sure anyone has ever referred to Chicago as temperate. I have never had winter issued removing Pitlocks in the cold. They are made and popular in Germany which has its share of winter cold. On Jan 8, 6:05 pm, EricP <ericpl...@aol.com> wrote: > A cover might get me to use Pitlock again. Have two sets. Ran them > on both my Hillborne and my LHT. On the latter, which is my winter > bike, the Pitlock started to seize. Had a devil of a time removing > the wheel one time. There was no obvious rust in the system. > > That pretty much scared me off of Pitlocks. Although if you live in > more temperate climates (or are better at maintenance) they are a nice > choice. (Also don't like only two keys. Prefer three. One to carry, > one for the shop, one in house as spare.) > > Have also used the Zefal QR (that Riv used to sell). Those had a > different problem. If I cranked the cam down tight, the pin wouldn't > always dislodge. Scared me nigh on half to death one time trying to > fix a flat. That was also in winter. Could easily have been a > binding issue between two different materials. > > Eric Platt > St. Paul, MN > > On Jan 8, 4:07 pm, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> wrote: > > > > > I use Pitlocks on my bike with hollow axle hubs. They are good > > looking, well made and fairly easy to remove, provided you remember to > > bring your coded pit socket. > > > Not sure if PJW sells them, but Urban Bike Tech in Canada sells nice > > caps for the pit side so you can have a really clean look. > > > On Jan 8, 12:32 pm, Marty <mgie...@mac.com> wrote: > > > > I need a pair of skewers for my next build - using Phil/Riv hubs. > > > Looking for a nice clean design, and no plastic. Anyone have > > > experience with Pitlock? > > > > Marty- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
