Jerry Moos wrote:
>If you like the old Weyless skewers (I do) there are some very similar
>skewers currently made (or at least made in recent years) by a company
>called Timberlin. I bought several pairs a couple of years ago from
>Lickton's to use with Phil Wood hubs, which of course come without
>skewers. The skewers were quite inexpensive, yet looked totally
>appropriate with the high snoot Phil hubs. Or maybe they just seemed
>appropriate to me because they looked so much like Weyless.
I don't know what those were, but if memory serves, you can't use _actual_ Weyless skewers in anybody else's hubs, onacountta they're thicker than standard and won't fit through the axles.
Sheldon "Owns Two Pairs Of Weyless Rollers And Never Uses Them" Brown
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