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@danwentskiing
me fail english? that's unpossible.
it's not my cones that keep breaking, it's the locknuts. apparently this is a common phenomenon with formula et al. my wheel creeps forwards in the dropout over the course of a week or so, which can only be due to acceleration because i don't have a rear brake and only ever apply modest braking via my legs. hence i bolllock up my tracknuts to ridiculous degrees of tightness (tighter even than the grip on my wallet), which must over-load the locknuts and they crack. often they'll just crack and stay there, and gradually fall to bits. it doesn't help that i keep replacing them with whatever i can find with the same thread, which usually means they're actually weaker than what just broke.