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Currently have a set of DT Swiss 1900 with adapters currently on, and I do have a make shift qr at the moment.
Why are disc brakes and QR a bad combination? Not really had any issues with that over the last 8 ish years with different bikes.
Why am I getting a new bike?
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Why are disc brakes and QR a bad combination?
https://diskbrakesqr.wordpress.com/
Why am I getting a new bike?
You might not be, I wrongly assumed that since Marin had picked a deprecated fork end they might have been a decade behind the times at the other end and you'd be hunting high and low for a straight-steerer replacement. As it is, the lower headset is 1.5" so you shouldn't have too much trouble finding a fork to fit.
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The stock hub is Joytech, presumably an OEM custom job specifically for that bike since by 2018 it was already well known to everybody else that QR hubs and disc brakes are a bad combination. Good luck getting a spare for that 🙂
As a dismal kludge while you're waiting for a new bike, or at least fork, you can trim and rethread a rear QR. If I were lumbered with that fork and a 15×110 hub I had to fix to it securely, I'd make an axle adapter with nuts or bolts. I did one from OTP parts to put a 20×110 hub into the 9×100 Pompetamine fork, but your use case is probably going to need custom parts as it's such an improbable starting point.