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Eejit
The horizontal sliding drop outs of my 2016 Strggler are driving me nuts recently. Their design flaws have always been obvious to me, but I am recently hauling more weight around (panniers, 2 racks, bike seat + daughter, etc) so have to push a bit more than usual on the pedals, especially when starting from fully stopped, which causes the rear wheel to slip more than usual.
I am already using Hope mtb skewers, done up to the limit of what I can then re-open by hand. I was using Halo hex key skewers in the past, but I stopped after having snapped some 4-5 of them due to overtightening.
TL;DR, what are people doing to avoid wheel slip with their dropouts predating this update ?
