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Old 11-23-10 | 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by T-Mar
Maybe, maybe not. It all depends what components he's going to run. Misaligned dropouts immdiately put the axle into bending stress. Indexed shifting does not tolerate hanger misalgnment well when using high cog counts and improperly postioned axles in older, horizontal dropouts. Sometimes you can get away with it and sometimes you can't.
I'm actually having a problem getting an 11-26 with indexed shifting (DA short cage RD, DA shifters) to run properly in the highest 2 cogs. I'll probably take this to an LBS to get this confirmed, but this sounds like it could be an issue.
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