EasyPeez
Veteran
- Location
- Cottingham, East Yorkshire
When it comes to choosing hubs for a wheel build, I was just wondering what kind of options are out there re: shims and adapters (which don't compromise performance or durability) to cater for changes in systems and measurements down the line?
I'm weighing options up for a build at the moment and need QR skewers and a 135mm hub width for the bike they will be used on. However, I'm thinking that the wheels might be with me longer than the bike. I might want end up wanting to use them with thru' axles and narrower drop-outs on a future bike.
In that situation is the normal course of action just to cut one's losses and have new ones built for a new bike?
I understand some hubs will convert from QR to thru' axle - is this true of most hubs and are the adpaters much cop?
And in terms of the hub width - I guess it's impossible for a 135mm hub to be fitted to a bike with 130mm between the drop-outs, right? How about the other way around? Is there a possibility of using spacers to fit a 130mm hub wheel to a bike with 135mm between the drop-outs? If so is there be any sense in one having wheels built on a 130mm hub to give the option of covering both bases, as it were?
Cheers,
Andy
I'm weighing options up for a build at the moment and need QR skewers and a 135mm hub width for the bike they will be used on. However, I'm thinking that the wheels might be with me longer than the bike. I might want end up wanting to use them with thru' axles and narrower drop-outs on a future bike.
In that situation is the normal course of action just to cut one's losses and have new ones built for a new bike?
I understand some hubs will convert from QR to thru' axle - is this true of most hubs and are the adpaters much cop?
And in terms of the hub width - I guess it's impossible for a 135mm hub to be fitted to a bike with 130mm between the drop-outs, right? How about the other way around? Is there a possibility of using spacers to fit a 130mm hub wheel to a bike with 135mm between the drop-outs? If so is there be any sense in one having wheels built on a 130mm hub to give the option of covering both bases, as it were?
Cheers,
Andy