cce":3uomsya8 said:Plenty of 7 speed hubs were 135mm. Just want to clear up that piece of misinformation.
The History Man":3lyw8b1a said:Axles on current and previous parallax wheels same length. Tight but fine. As long as two people pull while I drop the wheel in.
If the indexing is a bit out I just pull the cable away from the tube like a bow string.
Didn't get that from Sheldon now did I?
cce":1lfiweaq said:Plenty of 7 speed hubs were 135mm. Just want to clear up that piece of misinformation.
legrandefromage":ma2x59in said:cce":ma2x59in said:Plenty of 7 speed hubs were 135mm. Just want to clear up that piece of misinformation.
Definitely - what a bizarre thing to say. 135 has been around many years, predating STX by a long way so why assume that 7spd hubs are 130?
And those 6spd Deore shifters work just as well in a 7spd system, you wouldnt notice any difference. 8spd is nice to have though and easy to obtain.
legrandefromage":1kvr60n2 said:Lots of people read these threads and believe every word that is written. The majority of MTB 7spd hubs would have been 135mm by the 1990's. Just keeping it factual.
sinnerman":2j7ojrtb said:The mid 90s STX RC parallax hubs have a 130mm width for the 7 SPD hub, Which is correct for this frame/build.
cce":1m0d2c0s said:sinnerman":1m0d2c0s said:The mid 90s STX RC parallax hubs have a 130mm width for the 7 SPD hub, Which is correct for this frame/build.
You could get them with a 130mm axle or a 135mm axle. Most of them will have been 135, because by the time they were produced, MTB frame production had gone over to 135mm almost without exception.