Merlin Titanium - why 132.5 dropouts? What's the post?

[Black_puma]

Cook Bros cranks too?

or Topline?

cant ever remember which ones had the blind pedal hole.

Topline had this, I know as I had some on my 1993 GT Zaskar BITD, nice red anodised cranks!

 

[TreaderSteve]

Anyone know why the rear dropouts are 132.5mm (as per catalogue and near as dammit measured in reality)? So either a 130 or 135 could go in?
I've bought an earlier XT hub so will be getting the rear wheel re-built. Shall I space it to 132.5mm before re-build as I have the opportunity to? The wheel would only be for this frame. I'd have to choose axle length carefully and mock-up to make sure the axle doesn't protrude the dropouts if I chose a '135' axle.

I'd still love to know who made the Ti seatpost so I can eventually state it on the list of build parts. It's 25.4mm. Rusty bolts now replaced with Ti and a new 1992 Vetta Lite fitted.

Cheers