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03-05-08, 06:34 PM
Hi there, short story: I refit my Xtracycle today with Pinhead locking skewers, replacing the Delta skewers that were on there before. On fitting the rear, I needed to readjust my disk brake, so I got out the little led light, held it up behind the disk so I could see the gaps and started calibrating.. But thats when I noticed the interesting thing about my hub:
There seems to be a small gap between the side face of the hub and the inner face of the Xtracycle's dropouts. Very small, a half millimetre or so. But is this trouble, if the dropouts aren't squeezed right up to the hub completely?
It would seem like it, but I checked and double checked that the wheel was properly seated in, tried tightening the skewer down enough to make the two faces fit, everything I could think of. They wouldn't meet.
Does this occasionally happen, acceptably?
There seems to be a small gap between the side face of the hub and the inner face of the Xtracycle's dropouts. Very small, a half millimetre or so. But is this trouble, if the dropouts aren't squeezed right up to the hub completely?
It would seem like it, but I checked and double checked that the wheel was properly seated in, tried tightening the skewer down enough to make the two faces fit, everything I could think of. They wouldn't meet.
Does this occasionally happen, acceptably?