Re: [CR]Now:Track QRs Was:Drilled-Out Paramount Hubs?

(Example: Framebuilders:Cecil Behringer)

To: Sheldon Brown <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
From: "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Now:Track QRs Was:Drilled-Out Paramount Hubs?
Cc: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:52:52 -0500

In the current UCI rulebook, I can find no reference to the legality or illegality of using quick-releases on track bikes.

USCF rules may be different.

At Tuesday, 29 October 2002, Sheldon Brown <CaptBike@sheldonbrown. com> wrote:
>Chuck Schmidt wrote:
>
>>Well Ken, actually there was a very good reason to have a QR on a track
>>bike in the mid 1960s...
>>
>>I was told that being able to switch a wheel with a flat tire or a
>>crashed wheel quickly would be an advantage in an event as long as a
>>points race on the track. Also in 1967 (when Campagnolo showed the
>>track hubs with QRs) there was no international rule preventing the use
>>of a QR (I have no knowledge about USA rules in effect at that time). I
>>don't know when the legality of using a QR on the track changed.
>
>I don't know where I got this information from, but it has long been
>my understanding that the prohibition of QRs for track use actually
>predates the invention of the QR!
>
>Back in the olden days, the choice was between hex nuts and wing
>nuts. Wing nuts were deemed to be a hazardous protrusion liable to
>injure a rider in a pile up, and were forbidden for that reason...but
>the way the rule was written, it prescribed hex nuts rather than
>proscribe wing nuts.
>
>Effectively, then, QRs were forbidden before they were invented, even
>though they actually don't cause any hazard in practice. Trackies
>are the most conservative of cyclists, and there has been no
>compelling need to change this rule.
>
>Sheldon "Quick Release" Brown
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