Originally Posted by
SlowCrank
Thanks... I'm not sure what OLD stands for, also the rear spacing isn't 135, it's 126.
You are trying to stick an 8 speed freewheel on a 126mm setup?
Do you have any idea just how much worse you've made the asymmetry of the rear wheel?
Commonly rear 126mm 6/7 speed offsets are:
36 non-drive
20 drive side
Now you've probably made it:
40 non-drive
16 drive side
It you are going to stick with your new setup, I strongly recommend cold-setting your rear to 130mm.
...and then add a 4mm spacer to the non-drive side of the hub along with a longer axle to create a 130mm rear hub.
This way you can bring the non-drive side offset back down to around 36mm...
Otherwise you are going to have very loose non-drive tension (much like some old Maillard wheels) and increase the risk of non-drive spoke breakage at the heads.
=8-)