I've had a recurring mechanical in my triathlons over the years - at least 3 of them.
It's due to the track-style horizontal dropouts on my Cervelo P2. I try and clamp the rear skewer as tight as I can make it, but this time around, coming out of T1 was a very steep hill, and while hammering out of saddle to climb it as quickly as possible, I once again managed to 'suck' the rear wheel into the frame, overcoming the small positional screws yet again.
I realized something was wrong pretty quickly when I hit the flat, and felt like I was pushing hard at was barely hitting 19mph on the flat - pulled over and sure enough, wheel was sucked into the frame.
Remounting it after your limiter screws on the frame are sheared/goofy is a bit challenging, and I've replaced and rejiggered them at least 3 times with replacements screws and even bolts to hold them in place, but even those have gotten stripped.
I was thinking the easiest way to deal with this might to be to just have a small piece of plastic (like a cut up credit card layered on itself) made to just the right width to use as a spacer to mount the wheel - just shove this thing between the frame and the wheel, and then tighten down the skewer. You could conceivably just outright remove the (useless) limiter screws so you don't have to worry about stripping them again, and importantly, if you do encounter wheelsuck in a race/ride because you inadvertently didn't tighten the skewer enough, you could just bust out that tiny piece of plastic and remount your wheel without worry. (It's otherwise a bit dicey to mount it again without the limiter screws to center the wheel correctly.)
Anyone try this? Just curious - seems like an easy fix for an annoying problem.
It's due to the track-style horizontal dropouts on my Cervelo P2. I try and clamp the rear skewer as tight as I can make it, but this time around, coming out of T1 was a very steep hill, and while hammering out of saddle to climb it as quickly as possible, I once again managed to 'suck' the rear wheel into the frame, overcoming the small positional screws yet again.
I realized something was wrong pretty quickly when I hit the flat, and felt like I was pushing hard at was barely hitting 19mph on the flat - pulled over and sure enough, wheel was sucked into the frame.
Remounting it after your limiter screws on the frame are sheared/goofy is a bit challenging, and I've replaced and rejiggered them at least 3 times with replacements screws and even bolts to hold them in place, but even those have gotten stripped.
I was thinking the easiest way to deal with this might to be to just have a small piece of plastic (like a cut up credit card layered on itself) made to just the right width to use as a spacer to mount the wheel - just shove this thing between the frame and the wheel, and then tighten down the skewer. You could conceivably just outright remove the (useless) limiter screws so you don't have to worry about stripping them again, and importantly, if you do encounter wheelsuck in a race/ride because you inadvertently didn't tighten the skewer enough, you could just bust out that tiny piece of plastic and remount your wheel without worry. (It's otherwise a bit dicey to mount it again without the limiter screws to center the wheel correctly.)
Anyone try this? Just curious - seems like an easy fix for an annoying problem.
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