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Long QR skewer with internal cam?
Hi there
One of my bikes has a rack (the Blackburn Expedition one) that's mounted via an extra long QR skewer. The rack is great, has served me well, etc. & and all that goood stuff.
That QR skewer, however, is utter crap. I've identified it as the source of a recurring and really bloody annoying clicking noise, which occurs when it's not tightened down enough, and it's really hard to clamp down - to top it off it also has a tendency to untighten itself again over time.
I blame all of this (and a varying number of other wrongs in this world) on its external cam mechanism. My other QR skewers are all internal cam, work nicely, never causing me any grief.
I've googled my bum off but I can't seem to find a whole lot of QR skewers that long to begin with (230mm spindle), let alone one with an internal cam. 
Am I looking at buying a new rack? Or can someone here point me to some obscure specialised source who may have them?
Cheers!
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Cool, thanks
Looking at those I'm starting to think it might actually be cheaper to just get a new rack instead.
Wow. Sounds like a lot of unnecessary material to clamp across.
There are racks out there which will allow normal sized skewers - I was looking at this type last year eg. http://www.tredz.co.uk/.Axiom-Streamliner-Disc-Deluxe-Rear-Rack_54702.htm or if you don't have seatstay mounts either http://www.tredz.co.uk/.Axiom-Streamliner-Road-Deluxe-Rear-Rack_54703.htm which mounts at axle and behind a caliper brake. Tubus racks can be fitted like this with an optional adapter set but it makes an already expensive rack astronomical.
If you need standard length closed cam skewers but don't want to spend vast sums... Turbo trainer skewers can be had for just a few quid.
Planet X have 200mm fatbike skewers, but again they're open cam.
Good luck in the quest.
Wow. Sounds like a lot of unnecessary material to clamp across.
There are racks out there which will allow normal sized skewers - I was looking at this type last year eg. http://www.tredz.co.uk/.Axiom-Streamliner-Disc-Deluxe-Rear-Rack_54702.htm or if you don't have seatstay mounts either http://www.tredz.co.uk/.Axiom-Streamliner-Road-Deluxe-Rear-Rack_54703.htm which mounts at axle and behind a caliper brake. Tubus racks can be fitted like this with an optional adapter set but it makes an already expensive rack astronomical.
If you need standard length closed cam skewers but don't want to spend vast sums... Turbo trainer skewers can be had for just a few quid.
Planet X have 200mm fatbike skewers, but again they're open cam.
Good luck in the quest.
Wow. Sounds like a lot of unnecessary material to clamp across.
There are racks out there which will allow normal sized skewers - I was looking at this type last year eg. http://www.tredz.co.uk/.Axiom-Streamliner-Disc-Deluxe-Rear-Rack_54702.htm or if you don't have seatstay mounts either http://www.tredz.co.uk/.Axiom-Streamliner-Road-Deluxe-Rear-Rack_54703.htm which mounts at axle and behind a caliper brake. Tubus racks can be fitted like this with an optional adapter set but it makes an already expensive rack astronomical.
If you need standard length closed cam skewers but don't want to spend vast sums... Turbo trainer skewers can be had for just a few quid.
Planet X have 200mm fatbike skewers, but again they're open cam.
Good luck in the quest.
I've measured the skewer spindle, it is 230mm. And the parts of the rack where it goes through are at least an inch, yes.
Thanks, monty dog - I'll have a look at those.
230mm?!?
That just sounds wrong. It's nearly FOUR inches longer than a standard road or mtb rear skewer. Even fat bikes ain't that fat across the rear.
Try measuring between the clamping faces with everything done up on the bike. Unless there is something seriously rare about either your axle, dropouts or the rack struts are an inch thick I just can't see how you would need a skewer that size.
Fat bike hubs go up to 190mm - Hope do them, not internal cam but well made. Not currently listed anywhere but try a fat bike specialist like Sideways Cycles, Slam69 or Charlie the Bikemonger