Thread: using 9 cogs with 10 cog spacing
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Old 10-19-09 | 07:42 PM
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Bikes: '96 Litespeed Catalyst, '05 Litespeed Firenze, '06 Litespeed Tuscany, '20 Surly Midnight Special, All are 3x10. It is hilly around here!

Originally Posted by Charles Ramsey
Here is a formula developed by Bill McCready of santana http://www.sudibe.de/articles/wheandhub.html If you remove a gear from a 10 cog cluster and redish it will make the wheel 1.6 times stronger. All my wheels are dishless none of my wheels have ever done this http://share.ovi.com/media/currentre...resident.10018 or this http://share.ovi.com/media/currentre...resident.10050 http://share.ovi.com/media/currentre...resident.10017
Tandems typically use 140 hubs (or 160 for Santanna) so they are nearly dishless with any 8/9/10-speed freehub.
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