wasatchtelemark

I bought a new road frame with 135 rear spacing. All of the road wheels seem to have 130 rear spacing. I haven't purchased any parts to build it up yet so my option are wide open. What is the best way to go with 135 rear spacing for a rear road wheel? It is a pinarello marvel aluminum/carbon frame they had cheap on bonktown.

HillRider

I'm really surprised a Pinarello has 135 mm spacing as that's usually limited to touring and hybid bikes for road use. Of course, it's the standard for MTB hubs.

Obvious choice is to use an MTB hub and have a wheel builder lace a road rim to it.

You could respace a road wheel to 135 mm with extra spacers on the non-drive side. This will require redishing the wheel but will allow reduced dish.

You really won't have to change axles. Respacing will reduce the axle protrusion past each locknut from 5.5 mm to 3 mm but that's adequate.

AEO

+1 to what hillrider said.

wasatchtelemark

https://www.backcountryoutlet.com/out...007&mv_pc=r126

I agree it is weird for a Pinarello road bike to have 135 rear spacing. When saw the 135 spacing on the website I thought it was a mistake. I measured the frame today and with the plastic support still in and it measured 136.

Bonktown was selling them for $775.00 a few days ago and I could resist. The N+1 problem.

metal_cowboy

You could splurge and get some Phil Wood or White Industy 135mm hubs laced to an Mavic Open Pro Rim, but if $700 dollars for a set of wheels is too much, go with a good pair of XT hubs with Mavic Rims. You will not be able to tell any differance between the XT and a similiar 130mm hub.

DannoXYZ 

You can adapt most 130mm hubs to 135mm spacing by getting a longer 146mm axle and two 2.5mm axle-washers. Replace the existing hub-axle with the longer one and insert one spacer under each axle-locknut. You'll need to re-adjust your RD cable-tension.

Personally I would put a 5mm on the left non-drive side and re-dish the wheel to reduce dish and increase wheel-strength. That's the whole point of going to 135mm in the 1st place. Requires a little more work than the 1st solution, but it's the better one in the long run.

late

Be the first kid on the block to have a road bike with a XTR hub. I had some wheels
built with XTR for the wife and startled by how nice they were. And yeah, I've had Durace.

HillRider

I believe in Shimano's hierarchy, XTR= Dura Ace They represent the top of their respective lines in both quality and cost.

Also, he probably won't be the first. I've seen several touring bikes with high-line Shimano MTB rear hubs laced to 700c road rims.

Tabor

Although I do not have a MTB rear hub, I do run an XT cassette and RD and they are every bit as good as the Ultegra parts they replaced. In fact, I think the RD is a little nicer. I WISH I had 135mm rear spacing on my Pacer, that would make the bike that much more bulletproof.

TallRider

But he might well be the first on his block

A local shop guy told me last week that he'd worked on a touring bike with 10-speed SRAM shifters and mtb-range cassette paired with a Shimano long-cage mountain RD.

Seriously, the hub shells are basically the same, it's mainly the axle and spacing that differs. The options are all laid out in this thread. What you choose could depend on lots of things, most of which we (the responders) don't know yet, like your budget, what parts you have available, whether you like building wheels, etc.

well biked

If it were mine, I wouldn't be happy about the 135mm spacing. With that said, I'd put some nice mtb hubs on it as already mentioned, XT or XTR, and lace them to some nice road rims. The rear wheel will be slightly stronger than it would be otherwise due to a bit less dish.

One thing about it: if standard road spacing becomes 135mm, you'll be ahead of the game.

wasatchtelemark

Thank you for the excellent advice and recommendations. I am now able to make an informed decision and I appreciate that very much. Thanks again!