The control tech skewers have a ti skewer part and aluminum ends. I never had to tighten too hard.
On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:18:26 PM UTC-7, joe b. wrote: > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:13 PM, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On my Davidson road bike, with chromed dropouts, I couldn't stop > slipping > > with Mavic or Dura Ace internal cam skewers. Everything on the bike was > > brand new. I replaced them with Control Tech Ti skewers (which I was > > willing to do also trying to get a lugged steel bike under 18lb). I > never > > had a single slip with those. That was 1992. > > That makes some sense, titanium being harder (I think) than steel. The > ones I've used have had aluminum or steel faces. I'll file this trick > away for future use! > > Best, > joe broach > portland, or > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/hwJ3BVMuVMwJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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.
