I have one of the first batch of green QB's and it gets a pretty consistent 120 miles/week commuting on mostly flats with some short hills. I used to ride it fixed until maybe 3 months ago, when I flipped to the 16T freewheel and went to a 46T ring. These aren't great photos, but here it is:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Wheelsmith91/Quickbeam# Don't be put off by this thread. I'm 6'3", 200 lbs and like to sprint for traffic lights. I seem to recall feeling the chain slacken maybe once or twice early on, but slippage is not an issue as long as you adequately tighten the QR. I'll confess that I tighten the QR slightly more on the QB than on a bike with vertical drops, but not excessively.... The tuggnut thingy from Surly would make it a total non-issue, but I'm not convinced it's necessary if you have a good QR. For holding on a wheel, I've heard it from reliable sources that a QR has a mechanical advantage over an axle nut, and don't ask me to explain why :-) but I tend to agree with this. I would occasionally have an axle slip back in my BMX racing days, but practically never on horizontal-dropout'd road frames. Then again, that could be a function of 180mm cranks and all the leverage from BMX bars, and the old electronic gate start.... Good luck, and I hope you decide to get a new QB. The kickstand bracket and mid-stay rack braze ons are smart additions to the latest version, I think. -br On Feb 25, 8:13 pm, "c.n.smith" <c.n.sm...@comcast.net> wrote: > As somebody who is looking at getting one of the silver QB's, I am > surprised at how many posts this topic has received. I'm having a > hard time telling how much of an issue slippage is for most QB > owners. Can somebody help me with some perspective. Thanks in > advance. > > -Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
