Editor’s note: John Barnett is president and founder of Barnett Bicycle Institute in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Aside from being a bicycle mechanic instructor, he’s author of Barnett’s Manual DX, a comprehensive guide to bicycle repair and maintenance. He supplied this detailed “how-to” on adjusting a quick release following the industrywide recall action in late September.
By John Barnett
Few manufacturers provide quantifiable specifications for setting the quick-release wheel-retention mechanisms they make. …read more