Old 07-27-15 | 11:38 PM
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jur
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I find it hard to believe that you can't put a 130mm hub in a 135mm OLD frame. The later Xootr Swifts have 135mm and I have had no problems shutting the dropout closed on my road hubs over the years, although I did use a 1mm thick washer as a bit of a spacer, and I suppose that brings it almost to the 132.5mm value. Aluminium has a finite number of stress cycles for any amount of stress, unlike steel which has infinite stress cycles if you keep the stress below a certain level. But for the few times you stress the rear triangle to insert a hub... well that is an infinitesimal amount of the total amount. You won't be cracking the frame in your own life even if you removed and replaced the back wheel every day for the rest of your life.

It is a big PITA though, to wrestle a 135mm hub into a 130mm frame.
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