Originally Posted by Fugazi Dave
I recently salvaged a thoroughly badass old 36-hole GT bmx hub and am thinking of using it to build a new front wheel for my bike. However, it appears to have a 10mm axle, so it won't actually fit in the end of my fork. I know it would also require new cones and nuts, but is it doable to switch the hub over to a 9mm axle?
Is it a high-flange GT "superlace" hub? I had a pair of those that are probably still in my parents garage and I've considered digging them out a using building a pair of singlespeed wheels. The spoke holes on the hub were not all the same distance from the axle, so it required a number of differing spoke lengths. Those superlace hubs laced to a pair of chrome Araya 7x rims was the lightest and strongest BMX wheels I ever had. When I replaced my heavy Perigrine 48s with those wheels I was jumping higher and more radical than ever before!!!!!