Originally Posted by
Zap Hassellhoff
I though about going with a 7 speed for a minute but I realy like the ease of the 3 speed and the cost of the 7 speed starts to make this projest get a little out hand.
I gotta believe having a wheel specially built and hub modified that expands the dropout spacing of a Nexus 3 from 120mm to 130mm is going be comparable in price to a Nexus-7 that is already 130mm or a Nexus 8 that is 132mm. Perhaps Rube Goldberg will disagree with me.
Maybe you could go with a standard 120 mm Nexus 3 and insert the axle inside some flanges and in turn bolt the flanges to the inboard portions of the 130 mm dropouts. I've seen some old bike suspension systems that used that and similar approaches.