decent aluminum bike with fender and rack mounts and hydraulic disc brakes

prokyon wrote:

I guess another question to ask would be - how important are through-axles for road bikes with disc brakes? I had a mountain bike with skewers and hated them - every time I took the wheels off I had to re-align the brake calipers all over again with a tool to prevent the annoying rotor rub.

The main reason for thru-axles is to prevent the wheel being ejected from brake forces or twisting the fork legs which can be prevented by forward facing fork dropouts, sturdier legs and not using stupid lightweight skewers.

Personally, I'd rather have a through-axle fork given the weediness of road bike forks and the speeds involved.

aegisdesign wrote:

prokyon wrote:

I guess another question to ask would be - how important are through-axles for road bikes with disc brakes? I had a mountain bike with skewers and hated them - every time I took the wheels off I had to re-align the brake calipers all over again with a tool to prevent the annoying rotor rub.

The main reason for thru-axles is to prevent the wheel being ejected from brake forces or twisting the fork legs which can be prevented by forward facing fork dropouts, sturdier legs and not using stupid lightweight skewers.

Personally, I'd rather have a through-axle fork given the weediness of road bike forks and the speeds involved.

 

To be honest I thought the main benefit of thru axles are that the disc rotors are less likely to rub?

StoopidUserName wrote:

aegisdesign wrote:

prokyon wrote:

I guess another question to ask would be - how important are through-axles for road bikes with disc brakes? I had a mountain bike with skewers and hated them - every time I took the wheels off I had to re-align the brake calipers all over again with a tool to prevent the annoying rotor rub.

The main reason for thru-axles is to prevent the wheel being ejected from brake forces or twisting the fork legs which can be prevented by forward facing fork dropouts, sturdier legs and not using stupid lightweight skewers.

Personally, I'd rather have a through-axle fork given the weediness of road bike forks and the speeds involved.

 

 

To be honest I thought the main benefit of thru axles are that the disc rotors are less likely to rub?

It's all of the above.

Thru-axles make the whole fork/wheel interface stronger, so you should get less fork twisting and they have more accurate positioning than QRs. Also, they have a much better failure mode as if you let them get really loose, you're more likely to notice that your wheel has gone wobbly before the TA unscrews itself from the fork (and even then you'd still have one side attached, though I wouldn't fancy riding it).

I managed to not tighten up my rear TA once and wondered why my Di2 gears were rubbing/not shifting properly. I adjusted the trim a couple of times before realising what the problem was.