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Old 09-05-13 | 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by fietsbob
[+1)] With a 10x1 tpmm axle being common to many rear cassette hubs, buying a longer axle and a 5mm spacer for the left end and re dishing the finished wheel and All will be Good , in fact , as the dish is less, lateral strength a trifle better than a 130 axle wheel in a 130-dropout.
Actually you don't even have to buy the longer axle. A 130 mm hub uses a 141 mm long axle which allows 5.5 mm to stick out beyond the locknuts on both sides. A 135 mm hub uses a 146 mm axle which also lets 5.5 mm stick out of each locknut. Respacing a 130 mm hub to 135 mm while keeping the same 141 mm axle, reduces the protrusion beyond the locknuts to 3 mm per side which is enough. Sheldon Brown says nearly zero protrusion is enough as the hub is really clamped in place by the qr skewer but I do like at least a couple of mm on each side.
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