RE: [CR]Re: question for wheelbuilders

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Subject: RE: [CR]Re: question for wheelbuilders
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:21:33 -0500
Thread-Topic: [CR]Re: question for wheelbuilders
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From: "Bingham, Wayne R." <WBINGHAM@imf.org>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

Keven Ruf wrote:
>>>>Sorry I missed something, but why switch the axle around? Doesn't re-dishing alone make for an OK chain line?<<<<

I was wondering the same thing. Bob, is this maybe a factor on a 120 hub? For a 126 hub, I have simply loosened the entire assembly, repositioned the spacers appropriately on the two sides, and re-dished the wheel. I've successfully done this numerous times, and it's currently what's being used (done to a C-Rec hub) on my wife's Falcon fixed-gear. No lock-ring, of course, but the cog is mounted using Loctite and the bike has front and rear brakes. Works just fine.

Wayne Bingham Falls Church VA

The wheel on this bike http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/freeman2.htm is built like you described. I just took the wheel that came with the bike and switched around the axle and redished it. Have been commuting on it for a year and a half and never had to retrue it. And I just did that for a customer too. You need a brake on the rear because you can't use a lockring on a road hub.

Bob Freeman, the king of inch-pitch
Seattle