Slope is trying ever so hard to 'modernise', taking delivery of another newfangled bike. This process is ranging between pleasurable excitement and surprising satisfaction, but with plenty of confusion and some annoyance.
So here we have front boingy boingy suspension forks (Fusion MIG32) with a 15 x 110 thru (sic) axle. When one undoes and removes the axle, the wheel does not simply drop out. The ends of the axle sit inside a ~1-1.5mm closed recess milled into the inner fork ends. In order to get the wheel out one has to try and force the legs apart a tad. They are very thick stiff things and this is not easy. Firstly one side usually plops out and the wheel then flops to one side and the disc rotor complains cos it's at any angle in its caliper. That's followed by wishful wiggling trying to free the end still stuck. Getting it back in afterwards is only very slightly easier.
The rear of the frame, with 12 x 148 thru axled wheel, does indeed have a simple flush drop out.
See photo of the recess on the inside of the right fork end.
How can this be right? Are everyone elses like this?
Is it just more of that "lawyers lips" wokery? Is every other recipient of these forks required to get a bloody file out in order to make life easier?
The pro peletons’ wheels drop out in a flash, as does the thru axle wheel in a pair of carbon front forks on slope’s other foray into modern bikeworld.
So why are these so unfriendly
Or am I just twp, or lacking ‘technique’?