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

(Example: Racing)

Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:31:17 -0500
From: "John T.Pergolizzi" <jtperry1@verizon.net>
Subject: RE: [CR]Front and rear track nuts...what's the difference?
In-reply-to: <44FDFBB9.2060001@comcast.net>
To: "'gabriel l romeu'" <romeug@comcast.net>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

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?

John T.Pergolizzi wrote:


> Tom Sanders asked:
>
> "I feel foolish asking, but I have never noticed any difference...what's
> the
> difference and why?"
>
>
> Tom,
> Fronts are 8mm (the opening of the hole) and rears are 9mm.
> Why? Cause The Campagnolo Gods deemed it that way.
> Just for the greater forces at the rear guesses me.

--

gabriel l romeu

chesterfield, nj, usa

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