Originally Posted by
soyabean
If the OP is bothered by skewers that "protrudes by about 5mm", they should just get a new perfect bike instead of their "OLD 7speed frame".
It is not an industry problem for longer skewers to be unsafe. There is no problem and thus nothing to resolve.
The 5mm is on a different bike. Mine.
Not sure if you meant OLD as in measurement or age there, but the 7speed isn’t my bike, I’m sorting it out for my son’s girlfriend after she was a bit ripped off by a 2nd hand purchase. Not terrible but has needed quite a bit of work to get rideworthy.
I’m not trying to replace one that’s too long? I’m trying to find out which one fits to replace a shot rusty one, and if it works but protrudes 1cm I’ll trim it.
Bit of a strange aggressive wade-in.