[Closed] Converting a 20mm fork to Maxle

good point, if you have access to a lathe then id do one with a top hat style lip so it rested against the outside of the fork also, make sense?

Yeah, good idea.

I WISH I had access to a lathe.. 🙁

Thing is, I don't very often take my Patriot out and about because it's a pain to take the front wheel off.

yeah i hate it also, it might just be easier selling your forks haha
id find a way to do it but the maxle's are pricey on there own so not worth it on my z1's

Don't forget that 20mm hubs (and hence forks) are wider than 15mm hubs too ...

isn't Maxle Lite 20mm?

Oh.. hmm.. still might work tho if the forks are wider...

Selling my forks.. right.. I would but something to replace Marz 66s would be terribly expensive I fear.

What fork is it? My Z1s are bolt up axle but takes abut 20 seconds to remove the wheel. half turn on one pinch bolt, undo axle end, half turn on other pinch bolt, push axle out.

maxle and maxle lite is 20mm, fox qr15 is 15mm

Marz 66. Two 4mm pinch bolts on each leg, and an two 6mm end caps. Not a major chore, but a faff still.

You don't take your bike out because its a pain to remove the front wheel?

You don't take your bike out because its a pain to remove the front wheel?

Maybe it needs to be squeezed into the car?

same set up as mine then Molgrips - I really don't find it any more of a fiddle than a QR ( flip lever, unscrew nut by hand pull wheel out) - altho maxle is best.

Oh no, I won't ride a bike because I need to take the front wheel off to get it in the car!

Thinking back to my old non-QR bolt-thru forks (Boxxers, Shivers, Monsters etc) it must have taken all of oooo, 30 seconds to remove and refit a wheel. Is it really that much of a chore?

Agree that the Maxle/Lite is no more difficult to remove than a QR, and both are 20mm.

FFS, why does everyone make massive sweeping assumptions completely misunderstanding the point of the post, making me out to be some kind of complete moron? What are you lot like? You never know, I might have a valid point, I might need to take the wheel off and on a lot in certain circumstances...

Since you brought it up, I work away from home during the week and I bring my bike in a bike bag in the car. The reason for the bag is so that I can keep the bike in my room and not risk it being nicked. So each evening when I want to ride the wheels go back on, and when I finish they come back off again.

Now I've got more than one bike, and the one that I typically bring has a QR at the back and a maxle at the front. ONE of the reasons I have not yet brought the other one down for the week is that it's less convenient to take the wheels off and on. Another is that it's a 7" travel Patriot, and this is the South-East. The Patriot gets plenty of riding at weekends.

I am not complaining about 30 seconds of my time, I WAS JUST BLOODY ASKING IF ANYONE MADE AN ADAPTER.

Christ on a mother-****ing stick!

molgrips - i understand.

my minutes are a right faff to remove the front wheel. 4 pinch bolts and the axle one too. my multi-tool interferes with the rotor on the disc side, so i can't fully insert the tool into th bolt, risking rounding it quite often. i have to dig around for the multitool in the bag. then i never really know how tight to do the bolts etc.

tool free wheel release is FAR superior.

if someone made an adapter, i'd happily pay reasonable money for it.

Thanks HM 🙂

But to answer your question - Maxle Lite's 20mm too, so no adapter needed, unless you didn't mean Maxle Lite :o)

FFS, why does everyone make massive sweeping assumptions completely misunderstanding the point of the post, making me out to be some kind of complete moron? What are you lot like? You never know, I might have a valid point, I might need to take the wheel off and on a lot in certain circumstances...

Hahaha.

I think they do it becuase you're quite easy to wind up.

🙂

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But to answer your question - Maxle Lite's 20mm too, so no adapter needed, unless you didn't mean Maxle Lite :o)
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You'd still need an adaptor of sorts as its not going to clamp down onto anything 🙂

You could mill the non driveside leg out a few mm, use a threaded top hat inside that for the maxle to thread into (glue the adaptor in) and peramently bolt up all of the other bolts with washrs to give the correct tolerance. You'd have to find a similary sized maxle (difficult) and prbably adapt it/space it to make it work.

It would be an utter faff, and may as well pick up some cheap pikes/revs/maguras.