Jason, The rule book does say that the axles do have to be wired. My case was a little odd in that bikes bike in question does not have the standard axle nut arrangement on the front. It's a 2011 Kawasaki Versys and everything is flush. If you can not wire the axle and nut the next best thing is the pinch bolts. What I ended up doing was using a longer pinch bolt and a spacer just long enough to have the head of the socket headed bolt protrude out for a safety wire hole and the wire to go through. The ECTA has a page on facebook and I ended up posting pictures there. If you've got facebook look me up, Joe Heffernan, go to my photos, albums, find "mobile uploads", the one with 74 pictures and scroll down. the first and third pics are both sides of the fork before and the middle pic is what I ended up doing.