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After my son's rear wheel was nicked I'm looking for a set of security skewers but drawing a blank on a rear 141mm boost security skewer, anybody know of anywhere I can get one.
Do you mean the ones without a lever, that need an allen key to undo them?
If so, then loads of 142mm ones available.
First one from a search below, loads more available from £10.
https://www.stifmtb.com/products/burgtec-rear-axle
These have a 5 sided Allen key to secure the wheels but fit qr frames.
I have these on my pub/road bike. I haven't had a wheel nicked since 2000, but I and careful where I lock my bike and I live in Nottingham where stealing a wheel seems much less common than Edinburgh where i grew up.
I've been looking for something similar for boost front and rear
Sjs have these, but it's £70 for a rear and £40 for a front. Seems a bit spendy
Spendy indeed, although it’s gonna cost me £180 to replace the wheel, cassette, brake, disc, tyre etc, maybe add a chain, I’m hoping to find something circa £20 per wheel….
I'm assuming he means the short lived QR 141mm boost skewer type that came on some early Sonder Frontiers, that rigid Marin Pine Mountain and a few others.
Indeed he does. 141mm QR.
A cheaper option is I will always put my d lock through the rear wheel rear triangle.
Its a habit after seeing so many wheel less bikes in edinburgh. Doesn't work in every parking spot, but I'm picky where I put my bike.
Some might say paranoid.
My son is going to carry a cable with him to put through the wheels, seat etc and in to his D lock, I should be able to get one for the front, just hoping for belt and braces on the rear too.