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Kimmo
@Veblen
Thanks everyone for the good advice and sorry for the late reply, I was out riding this week-end, for once. (Thanks for the link @Tijs, that's the one I read a while ago but couldn't find it again).
I think my strategy will be to buy some XT skewers for now to have something 100% reliable (just wish I could find some second hand, but the rear probably requires a 173 mm QR, which might be a pain to find), and then start looking at allen key skewers.
Indeed, I weighed my Pitlock skewers, and they're 41g for the front, 48g for the rear, so lighter than the XT ones. I would like to find something equivalent but for an allen key, as I don't need security skewers on audaxes and opening Pitlocks is kind of a faff.
Any recommandations for allen key skewers or are they all pretty much the same? There are these BBB ones on Bike24, CrMo axles and aluminum ends, I guess that's the best kind?