Confused by this. I've got a 36 with a QR axle. First time you fit you loosen the bolt, do up the QR, tight the bolt with puts the 'floating' section in the right place to adjust for this particular for and wheel combo. After that you just do up the QR and it's all tight.
Looking at someone's 38 the other day they had the bolt up axle. The one fork leg could be moved side to side slight over when everything was tight. They'd tried a QR and said that stopped the movement but the movement was actually intentional to keep the legs parallel and prevent binding.
This seems odd.
Not sure if it's the same as what you describe but my 36s have bolts on the leg bottoms, the bolt-in axle basically bolts the wheel to one leg, and then the bolts attach the other leg to the qr. So if the leg bolts aren't done up then the leg at the "outside" end of the axle is basically free floating.
If you're using the bolt up Kabolt-x axle you do the pinch bolt up after you screw the axle in. Every time. And you have to undo the pinch bolt before undoing the axle when removing it.
With the QR axle you only have to set the pinch bolt once and don't have to touch it again unless using a different wheel.
I had the standard bolt on my 36 Rhythm and now have the QR bolt on 36 Performance, and much prefer the simple bolt.
Neither of them had the fork legs move when torqued to spec though.
Have 2 bikes with 36 Factorys and I swapped the lowers* round on mine, so that my most used bike (eeb, of course) had the QR. Hated the K-Bolt, mostly because I ALWAYS forgot to undo the pinch bolts when removing.. "Why is this so tight!?" Argh, I know, I'm a dope. But, neither have any movement when axle is fastened.
(*couldn't just swap the whole fork cos the hardtail's ones had steerer cut too short.)
If you're using the bolt up Kabolt-x axle you do the pinch bolt up after you screw the axle in. Every time. And you have to undo the pinch bolt before undoing the axle when removing it.
With the QR axle you only have to set the pinch bolt once and don't have to touch it again unless using a different wheel.
Yep - I have two sets of 38's, one with each. First time I tried to take the Kabolt out I was scratching my head. I sometimes still forget now
Have 2 bikes with 36 Factorys and I swapped the lowers* round on mine, so that my most used bike (eeb, of course) had the QR. Hated the K-Bolt, mostly because I ALWAYS forgot to undo the pinch bolts when removing.. "Why is this so tight!?" Argh, I know, I'm a dope. But, neither have any movement when axle is fastened.
(*couldn't just swap the whole fork cos the hardtail's ones had steerer cut too short.)
You could have just swapped the axles, though ?
Nope, there's no pinch bolt on the QR ones.
Guess that’s an old model? There is one pinch bolt for all models with the floating axle. It holds the collar in place if you have a QR.
