On Friday night, arriving at the station to go for a weekend's camping, with a full touring load, I noticed that my front wheel was a bit wobbly, and I was getting too much road surface feel through the bars.
I checked my qr was closed. It was.
'Uh-oh', I thought, 'I recognise this: Broken axle, just like the Woodrup.'
But it seemed the skewer was holding it together, and there was nothing I could do about it till I got home, many miles later, so I didn't dare open it in case everything fell apart.
I spent the weekend cycling oh-so-carefully - especially descending towards Banbury loaded up again yesterday.
Last night, I hung the bike up (puzzled as to how the wheel was still intact), and found the axle was fine.
The head of the skewer was broken.
