Current Projects chat and miscellany

If you use the bike out on the road and get a puncture - which is more likely to happen in the winter when you have cold fingers, you then have to fiddle with these small screws which have been crudded up by all the road muck which seems to be abundant in the winter. Cold fingers + cruddy screws = fecking annoying arse ache.

I guess I've had plenty of practice getting the chain tension correct while I was racing and knowing how tight the nuts need to go for the wheel not to slip forward. Putting a wheel in and tightening should take no more than 30seconds without tensioners. Tensioners would probably cause me to take even more time to put a wheel in. You also have the annoyance of having to undo the tensioners before taking the wheel out, then having to re-set the tensioners before tightening the nuts.

But with built-in tensioners you don't have to touch them when removing and fitting a wheel. Your talking about the annoying things that loop onto the axle (such as the MKS Keirin things)?