Originally Posted by
rivendell
One, I'd like to keep it somewhat era correct. Two, the freehub body on 8 and up speed hubs is longer, correct? Meaning more dish than the shorter 7 speed one? Or am I wrong? I think I might just spread the forks after all.
Irrelevant anyways. Properly spec'ed and built wheelset isn't going to fail because of the slightly increased dish. And, you can at any time go to 8/9/10 if you wanted to.