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Old 10-07-11 | 11:29 AM
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MassiveD
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"I could do without the pump peg, chain hanger, spoke holder and decals."

+1

"Not an LHT, but my bike has 2 different length rear spokes too. In a pinch one size will easily suffice for both. I wouldn't build a wheel that way, but for a roadside repair as long as a few threads engage or and at the other extreme it doesn't poke through and damage the tube it will work fine."

I've been saying these things are silly for a long time. Touring bikes have bags, I put my stuff in bags, I don't see any benefit to the spoke holder. And now the much vaunted chain slap reason is gone. I like my bikes clean. But whatever makes people happy...

MY question though is that there are a lot of different hub sizes. Someone mentioned Rohloff on this thing, that has a very large flange, then you have large flange hubs, and small ones, and all the different rim depths. Since I don't like these things I also don't have any experience with them. Do they actually fit the wide range of potential spoke lengths? I know my panniers do.
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