Originally Posted by
Salamandrine
OK, now you know and so do we. Not nearly as proprietary as the Specialized axles, but still not a standard axle. They simply made a normal axle but didn't thread the ends as far. Even so, I doubt you'll find a replacement in a longer size. You could have a machine shop make one, ....
At any rate, thanks for sharing. It will be helpful in case anyone else runs into this.
Off topic, but what’s proprietary about Specialized axles? Am getting ready to build a wheel, found a Specailzed hub that at one point was going to be a fixed gear hub so had the hollow axle replaced with a solid one. Now I want to turn it back to a QR hub. Dug thru the axle collection and the first one I pulled out looks like it fits. As did two others, and I only ever have had two Specialzed rear hubs. So at least one of the axles must be Shimano. What Makes the SBC axle unique?