My mates bike has a DT Swiss RWS bolt through rear skewer. The handle end has come off – the end screw came undone and it dropped off somewhere in the woods.

Can I get a replacement handle anywhere? I unscrewed the handle on my spare one so he could ride the QECP endure at the weekend, but I’d quite like it back!

http://bit.ly/1gKZRwe

yeah.. they come attached to a free skewer

Probably cheaper to replace it with one of the Superstar ones at £7.99 (assuming it’s a 10mm rear skewer and not something proprietary)

Very useful Gav – I’d rather not have to pay £27 for a plastic handle.

Woody – thanks I’ll have a look at those.

Very useful Gav – I’d rather not have to pay £27 for a plastic handle.

You’re not paying for it… and the new ones are metal so it’s an upgrade! 😉

I’ve not seen any spares – there are a couple of threads on here asking the same question if you google. You’ll probably have to get something else if you want to save a few quid. I’ve had a couple of superstar cheapies and they were fine to start with, my 10mm qr rear no longer stays in place reliably on either bike after 18 months, but for £7.99 i’m not going to grumble.

http://www.rczbikeshop.com/ sell them cheap (€13.99) but only have road rears (130mm) and 100mm fronts. It might be possible to swap the handle onto yours.

The Superstar skewer is nowhere near as good.

The stiffness relies on the torque that you can do it up with and the SS one can’t get as much torque – I have a RS fork with a casting error in the dropouts – the RWS skewer is strong enough to show up the error (the wheel is not central) whereas a QR and the superstar both through aren’t strong enough.

Might not be an issue though if his rear triangle is so stiff that the extra stiffness from the axle doesn’t mean much – like the dw-link rears on a turner for example

Mine fell off my 12×135 DT Swiss, I drilled a hole through the end and used an Allen key to tension it till I found a cheapish maxle to replace it.

Shedfull – thanks, that’s the front runner so far.

Dan, I have one you can gladly have. There’s a thread on here when I was trying to remove the f wheel from Mrs Kings bike. I won’t be able to post for a while as I’m heading to Aviemore for week but your welcome to it. Jk.

JK – brilliant!! My emails in profile – let me know what you want.

No hurry, it’s not for a bike I need for a while.