Originally Posted by
carlomdy
I just picked up a used set of Mavic Ellipses. I just now went to take off the cog and swap it out, upon reinstallation of the lockring, I notice Formula etched into its side. My questions are, how close in thread pitch is the Mavic French threaded lockring to standard ones? Am I safe to continue using this lockring? Should I try to find a Mavic one at this point? The threads don't look amazing but it threads on nicely with no binding.
French lockring threading is 33mm x 1mm, which is totally different from English, which is 1.29" x 24TPI. So either that Formula lockring is French threaded, or the hub threads are totally boogered up now.
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