View Single Post
Old 04-30-14, 04:25 PM
  #43  
fietsbob
Banned
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: NW,Oregon Coast
Posts: 43,598

Bikes: 8

Mentioned: 197 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 7607 Post(s)
Liked 1,355 Times in 862 Posts
Me? Im talking about the hubshell itself , AFAIK, Shimano freehubs dont use a different one .

the axle is wider, and the width is added on the left end , so the hub shell is shifted to the right .

No greater base width, as the hubshell itself remains the same but the rim is over the middle of the centerline in beween those flanges

so spoke tensions are pretty close to dishless equal ..



now If you instead were fitting A Rohloff hub in the rear wheel .. then they are wider apart and a bigger diameter too ..

though 'just' a 135.. axle

in the last couple years for tandem users they added a 36 hole hubshell to make a 3 cross (maybe 4) build possible ..

people were using them in tandems and the 32 hole 2 cross did have some spoke flange cracks ,

when couples were touring to places in Peru over the Andes and such on Dirt roads carrying a full camping kit,

so they got a second hub shell option made ..

Last edited by fietsbob; 04-30-14 at 05:26 PM.
fietsbob is offline