Cycling UK Forum

Brucey are you saying that the axle in a braked hub and the axle in an unbraked hub are interchangeable? i always imagined that the gear parts of a braked hub were thinner to allow for the brake parts to fit in aswell. although, i'd assumed this and never measured it :oops: if it is the case that th...

Brucey wrote:if you use a later (non NIG) SA 3s hub then there are longer axles available for those (175 or 177 mm or something)

it shows on the SA website that they do exist. if you knew where one might be bought in the UK or EU i'd love to know

brucey - if the time comes where the OP wants to go to a 126mm hub, surely they can re-cold set it?

now, i don't know the measurements of your hub, nor which method of arriving at spoke length you might choose to use. however, i've always used this .. http://www.bikeschool.com/tools/spoke-length-calculator. it's never let me down for many wheels. putting some typical hub values in and ERDs of 541,...

assuming it's steel, cold setting the frame is easy enough. read sheldon brown. it's also the method that involves buying nothing

the driverless car of the future will allow the commuter several advantages. 1. it will mean that one is not limited to the distance of his commute...one will be able to live in say york and work in london and sleep on the way. 2. when the car gets to london, instead of having to pay parking it can ...

it'd be a little more helpful if Essex was in the title. i'd love to help, but it takes hours in a car to get to essex from here, and days by bike. good luck

nothing wrong with the responses, surely? look to me to be both polite and helpful.

haha, i thought maybe you meant length. as we all know, 1m wide is just a waste of paint attempting to keep motors going fast

toomsie wrote:It is competition that drives down costs and improves quality.

we can see that all around. just look at the railways /electricity companies

http://lincolnshirewoldsrailway.co.uk/ has a nice cafe if you visit when it's open.

toomsie...is climate change a myth and nuclear power the answer?

sheldon's method worked fine for me too. i went narrower

you've made made something unique, that will ride beautifully and last a lifetime. i'd say £1000+ is fair price for that. if you'd used a pre-made frame+forks say from bob jackson ...£650 just for the frameset - off the peg. so your total seems good value to me, it's nonsense to compare it to a taiw...

thanks both. even going going over the showground roundabout is something i wished to avoid, but at least it's easy from there.