Ahh... Steve is the only one who correctly guessed that SamuelJames (the OP) was asking about wheels! It looks like everyone else (including me) thought "XTR = derailleurs." I'd put an XTR derailleur on anything.
Here is Ellis Cycles' David Wages on his sculpted dropouts: http://bit.ly/ellis-dropouts Philip Philip Williamson www.biketinker.com On Jul 19, 4:36 pm, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 16:27 -0700, Rene Sterental wrote: > > AFIK, rear hub width is irrelevant. You can use MTB components on any > > road frame. Usual caveats apply such as making sure shifters are the > > same brand as the rear derailer and so on... > > If the rear hub is too wide for the dropouts, you either have to get the > hub respaced, or you have to get the rear triangle spread. Not doing > either, but just forcing the hub in there is, according to a recent > posting by a noted framebuilder who used to build frames for Serotta, > the leading cause of broken dropouts. > > So no, it's not irrelevant, it's just something you have to deal with. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
