This security pack contains stainless steel locking skewers, a seatpost lock and top cap lock designed to prevent the light fingered from whipping your wheels, seat post and increasingly, valuable forks and stem. The system works on a similar principle as household door locks with a unique combination, operable only with the supplied key which doubles as a useful bottle opener.
Once you've read the instructions fitting is fairly easy – don't forget to go online to register the key (essential should you need a replacement. Skewers accommodate frame ends from 120-135mm wide, but it pays to give them a couple of trial runs, ensuring roadside wheel removals are a smooth process.
Remove the original Q/R, put a slither of grease on the pinhead skewer and insert so the logo is visible on the bike’s right side. Slip the washer and threaded nut in place and set finger tight. Pinhead suggests between .5 and 1.5 complete turns with the key-but avoid over-tightening. Check purchase by lifting the wheel(s) and giving them a firm tug. Fitting and adjusting the Ahead stem cap and seat post bolts requires more concentration but the process is identical.
Removal is surprisingly hassle free and certainly no more involved than other skewers. Unlike Hex bolt designs, it is hard to see how a casual thief would gain leverage on the domed surface and a hardened pro would probably to look for easier pickings. However locking skewers no substitute for anchoring your steed to immobile street furniture with a hefty lock.
The whole kit shouldn't add any extra weight either, quoted weights for the constituent
parts are:
Seat lock - 34g
rear skewer - 37g
front skewer - 31g
top cap - 17g
key - 34g
Pinhead also claim that the skewers are amongst the most aerodynamic available...
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Well done tricky... you played a blinder. Fraile looked good all along...a real road racer....
Imagine if Specialized or Trek were still producing the same bike as they did in 1976 or so......
thats not the case, the consultation has been held, closed in January,the results of which should be published imminently, and the new law was due...
Goodbye old friend.
That's exactly why it's taken 20 years - it's a cycling route, not a road or a railway. Road or railway project - pushed through, as people want...
It's almost certainly foreign - A true British horse would have kept calm with a stiff upper lip....
Very true. I'm often overtaken by cars in a 20mph zone as I'm cycling over 20mph myself.
Ooooo now there's a thought ha ha ha 👍
Turns out they did go on to look at the GPS data, and it confirmed the initial estimate of his average speed (no mention of speed at the point of...
Please can you post what the final costs are? I'm wondering if any duty is actually due, irrespective of what simplyduty claims.