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Old 12-23-14 | 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Six jours
How did you find the spacing was off? When you first put the 135 wheel in, did it fit properly? When you took the wheel out, did the frame spring apart? And now the same wheel won't go back in again?
When I picked up the frame from the LBS, they had a tag on the dropout stating it was set at something like 134.4mm. I took the frame home and mounted a 135mm wheel but didn't really pay attention to how it fit but I did not notice anything unusual. Over several months I took the wheels on and off several times and at one point I noticed that I had to crank the QR a lot more than usual and that the axle didn't seem to be long enough. I rode it a bit but this bothered me so I took the wheel off and took the QR skewer out and it was warped (I suspect from being used to compress the stays to fit the axle). I measured the dropouts with a digital caliper and they came out 142.2mm.

Short answer is that based on my limited recollection, the 135mm wheel did fit correctly at first.
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