Re: [CR]Front and rear track nuts...what's the difference?

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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:02:18 -0400
From: "gabriel l romeu" <romeug@comcast.net>
To: "John T.Pergolizzi" <jtperry1@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Front and rear track nuts...what's the difference?
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damn, I hate copies when they neglect to copy the good parts...

John T.Pergolizzi wrote:
> Gabriel Romeu wrote:
> "the penance of having to carry 2 wrenches if you ride it on the road."


> Not so, grasshopper.
>
> Both front and rear take a 15mm wrench; Campy preferred, understated
> elegance. Both nuts look the same because the floating captive washers
> are also different sizes.
> Front:
>
> 8mm hole, 10mm across the flats of the nut, 10mm washer.
> Rear:
>
> 9mm hole, 10mm across the flats of the nut, 12mm washer.
> Washers are the same thickness.
> Now whose got a rear???
> John T.Pergolizzi
>
> What were The Gods thinking?
>> "I feel foolish asking, but I have never noticed any difference...wha t's
>
>> the
>
>> difference and why?"
>

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