Stop! I cant stop laughing about this. So glad it happened when i was testing.If I went down like that I'd be out for a month. We need a Big Bright Red Sticky: that says NO QR skewer axles allowed.
Just think if he was on a busy road with lots traffic up his backside & that skewer broke. Just think about it!
The thing is, there is no instructions for the monark fork that i could find. I have been having heaps of drama with these forks.
It had slipped out already once, i thought it was just me, and it needed to be tightened harder, and then in had issues with the wheel rubbing on the stationary fork.
I thought it was because of the pre-tension, as when loaded up the bolts that guide the springs would float through the top clamp, and pop the s**tty little nylon washers out of the clamp and the whole pivoting fork would wobble around floating the spring guides in the top clamp.
I reckon it needs a top had spacer, and i improvised, gluing the nylon washer to the spacer washer, phucked the dome nuts into the bin.
Replaced the top nuts with stainless nylocs, placed spacers underneath the main springs (ever occur to anyone, these only have 2- NOT 4 like a real springer?) With a flat 8mm washer, and then placed the glued improvised top hat washers into the top clamp, followed by another washer and then the nylocs.
This removed the "wiggle" that caused the fron wheel to rub, but doesnt fix my wheel issue.
So, on my other solid axle bikes, they have this washer that has a tab, that you can locate in a hole on the bottom of the fork.
Does anyone know if there is a redundant retainer setup for the axle like on old cruisers?