Originally Posted by
QStorm
Really nice bike, themanmachine! Did you build the rear wheel yourself or get it done at a bike shop. If you did it yourself, maybe you would be up to sharing some detail on how you built it and got it to fit in a mountain frame. Some of us would be eternally grateful.
I built the wheel myself. My fourth wheel ever. The hub is originally spaced 120 mm OLD, I just added about 6 mm of spacers on either side to space it out to ~132 mm or somewhere in between 130 and 135, which forced me to stretch the dropouts ever so slightly. The hub is 59 mm flange to flange, so there was plenty of room leftover for a 5 speed cassette in between the right flange and the right dropout.