Converting LF Record hub into 135 OLD?
10-06-14 | 12:07 AM
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Converting LF Record hub into 135 OLD?
I'm trying to use parts I have laying around and have a perfectly good set of low flange Record hubs. I'm building up a early 90's Cannondale H400 hybrid frame into my budget gravel bike. Being it's a hybrid it uses a MTB rear hub. It's getting equipped with a mixture of 80's Campag stuff...Triomphe, Chorus, C-Record. Just stuff I have laying around.
Wheels I have to build up for it and like I said I have these perfectly good Record hubs I want to use to keep with the theme. So just pick up a wider axle with the correct threading and find a spacer and call it a day?
Wheels I have to build up for it and like I said I have these perfectly good Record hubs I want to use to keep with the theme. So just pick up a wider axle with the correct threading and find a spacer and call it a day?
10-06-14 | 03:49 AM
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wheels mfct. makes axles for exactly this kind of thing, SJS cycles carries them (probably amongst others). Wheel Axles - QR & Nutted products from SJS Cycles
10-06-14 | 03:56 AM
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I'm trying to use parts I have laying around and have a perfectly good set of low flange Record hubs. I'm building up a early 90's Cannondale H400 hybrid frame into my budget gravel bike. Being it's a hybrid it uses a MTB rear hub. It's getting equipped with a mixture of 80's Campag stuff...Triomphe, Chorus, C-Record. Just stuff I have laying around.
Wheels I have to build up for it and like I said I have these perfectly good Record hubs I want to use to keep with the theme. So just pick up a wider axle with the correct threading and find a spacer and call it a day?
Wheels I have to build up for it and like I said I have these perfectly good Record hubs I want to use to keep with the theme. So just pick up a wider axle with the correct threading and find a spacer and call it a day?
This is the one you need, always use an axle that is 9-10 mm wider than the OLD you want. Need to have 4-5 mm sticking at each outer lock nut.
Amazon.com : Wheels Manufacturing RR Axle (10 x 26 tpi x 146mm QR) : Bike Wheel Skewers : Sports & Outdoors
If you want to make a Bomb proof rear hub, you can go Soilid Axle, just cut to fit, and use track nuts.
Amazon.com : Wheels Manufacturing RR Axle (10 x 26 tpi x 174mm) : Bike Wheel Skewers : Sports & Outdoors
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10-06-14 | 05:20 AM
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I think that's a bit wide for a freewheel hub, even for a solid axle. Freehubs were invented for a reason.
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10-06-14 | 07:57 AM
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I'll check at work as we should have those. I'll stick with a hollow axle and maybe grab a spare or two just in case because it is a bit of a stretch for a freewheeled hub.
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10-06-14 | 09:31 AM
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I have done this but don't recommend it especially for a gravel grinder.
I needed a cheap quick way to upgrade to 8spd for accompanying a customer to work, sort of like a Domestique arrangement. I put long axle in a CampI hub with a Sachs 8spd FW. It worked OK with his Ergo group but I did go through an axle or two over the years I had that setup.
Decent shipmano STX and RCS level hubs are cheap and you go either 7 or 8 spd.
I needed a cheap quick way to upgrade to 8spd for accompanying a customer to work, sort of like a Domestique arrangement. I put long axle in a CampI hub with a Sachs 8spd FW. It worked OK with his Ergo group but I did go through an axle or two over the years I had that setup.
Decent shipmano STX and RCS level hubs are cheap and you go either 7 or 8 spd.
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10-06-14 | 02:21 PM
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With a 6 speed maybe....just maybe it'll work. Here's what you do:
Gear side: Remove spacers to get the freewheel as close to the drop out as possible.
Non gear side: Add spacers until your at 135mm.
Don't be surprised if the axle is longer on the non-gear side.
Gear side: Remove spacers to get the freewheel as close to the drop out as possible.
Non gear side: Add spacers until your at 135mm.
Don't be surprised if the axle is longer on the non-gear side.
10-06-14 | 02:33 PM
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If the chainline gets too radical and makes more than just small-small cross rattle the chain, then perhaps one needs to increase the cog-to-right dropout spacing, but, subject only to this caveat, I like your recommendation.
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