I’m thinking about selling these annoying af bikes and trying to hunt down a used Big Easy
Someone tell me why that’s a bad idea or unapproved or whatever so I can ignore your advice
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no you should do that
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The only question should be, ‘back load or front load cagro biek’?’
I have to pass through too many hallways and doorways for a front loader to make sense, even though that’s the cooler and better of the two.
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just scrolled past this and it’s bothering me so I’m bumping.
I have seen this somewhere so it’s bothering me.
has to be loose spindle - that is an unthreaded bearing cup and a tension ring?
not WI, not spec
aren’t they boost?
I would assume so. I just can’t figure out if Shimano makes swappable end caps for these hubs (or at all?)
But if they are boost they’re too wide to fit 135
ohhhhh
that makes sense. thanks
Actually, coming back to this, I don’t know what I was thinKING. There’s only one real choice, considering the current hubs and headset.
actually boost 26" would be really weird wouldn’t it? ask him for a pic of the shimano code on the other side of the hubs
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yeah 26 + boost did not overlap at all, but those look like M9000 era hubs?
in which case they wouldn’t be 26" because those were only made in 29 and 27.5
so they are def not boost, but also not 26" ATMO
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ah, I guess I was looking at the m9000 and not 9020.
kinda forgot there are always two lines of xtr.
shimano isnt, however, particularly known for the ability to swap endcaps.
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good find. looks like they’re actually aluminum based on that ebay post too.
sounds like i will pass
it looks like they are aluminum wrapped in carbon fiber and he is probably assuming they are 26" because he knows they are not 29" and doesn’t know that 27.5" is a thing
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ok so i was thinking i was crazy earlier, but there is indeed no 26" variant in the shimano manual.
those ebay ones are rotten as hell, wtf, but they are 26"
so it looks like it would say on the sticker
selling 26" thru-axle wheels must be pretty rough.
damn, even the stridsland beachcomber is non-boost.
sup said they might be 150mm, even, because apparently 26” wheels with 150mm spaced thru axles was an old downhill standard in the early days of thru axles?
they are not that old. it’s like they put a wheel set into production that no one ever built a frame for