[in the trees]

Anyone having success with anything LIGHTER? I thought that I read somene had tried an Azonic version. Any other options?

Ska Todd - What will the axle configuration be with the 07s? Maxle? Gotta plan ahead, ya know.:thumbsup:


toby

 

[ska todd]

Anyone having success with anything LIGHTER? I thought that I read somene had tried an Azonic version. Any other options?

Ska Todd - What will the axle configuration be with the 07s? Maxle? Gotta plan ahead, ya know.:thumbsup:

No Maxle for the 7POINT rears for now. Enough people who want to run Saint out there that we want to keep it a plain thru axle.

There are some lightweight alloy thru axles out there. We spec them on some bikes in 06/07. On the 05 bikes we played it safe and went with the cromo but had no problems so switched to alloy for 06.

-ska todd

 

[rpet]

I bought the Azonic one and it works fine. Dual-nut type which requires a large open-end wrench. 17mm or something like that. Sort of a hassle to carry that wrench to the mountain; I wish it had a fancy single-allen release like the stock axle.

It is much, much lighter though; I don't own a scale for the exact difference.

-r

 

[Winston]

Aukmal runs the Azonic axle as well with no problems.

 

[aukmal]

Azonic rear axle

I've been running the Azonic aluminum axle for a while with no problems. Although I'm sort of a light-weight (160 w/ gear) and don't go big on the drops (max 5 feet). We do ride some pretty steep techy type stuff in SoCal, but I'm completely happy thus far with the Azonic axle.

Auk

 

[_dw]

An alloy axle will be plenty strong enough. We build the Sunday axles from 7075, but even a 6061 axle would be virtually indestructible.

Dave