What you need to go with your bigger wheels..

knucklebuster

knucklebuster

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Wider hubs, so says the experts, because the bigger wheels can't be built as strong as smaller ones, so you "need" wider hubs (and a new frame and fork, if I'm reading this right)... :crazy:
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UN BE LIEVABLE!!!! So, as soon as we get this new hub standard firmly entrenched, everyone will need to buy new forks and new frames! Awesome! Well done bike industry, well done. It's about time they invent something that no one asked for to force a change upon everyone that we don't want or need.

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Has anyone seen the circus of "width" standards going on in Fatbike land? If you haven't, continue to steer clear of that for your own good.

I'm actually all for this type of change. I've questioned in the past why the industry has stuck with 100mm width front hubs for so long. I'm only wondering why they didn't go wider.
 
Didn't even finish reading the article and I figured out the PERFECT solution...
Every Manufacturer should make ALL their bikes with proprietary everthing. I mean if Specialized could figure out a way to make you buy everything from them they would...right?

That way you have to buy company specific shoes, handlebars, cranks, forks, bottom brackets, grips, cassettes, brakes, brake pads, gloves, I can go on for hours... saddles, pedals, tires, spokes, getting the point? ....

How about on some parts they reverse the threads? Every time you buy a new bike it means new EVERYTHING!

I'm all for a healthy bike manufacturing industry but do not respect the move away from a standardization. Since I still struggle with wheel size it's hard for me to take this addition seriously. I don't mind the new options as long as they stay "options".

Actually REMOVING the 26'er from the option category puts me in less a mood for inovative change that forc es pocket book depletion...
 
And then some guy with a machine shop would do a land-office business making parts for bikes that people just won't give up.

I will not be buying another bike unless - (insert favorite deity) willing and the river don't rise - for at least 10 years. Unless I completely break the one I have.
 
Well...I guess it depends if the "industry" goes with that idea. Haha...maybe the bike industry is running out of ideas.

Who knows...maybe in a year or two...it might not go anywhere. Just because SRAM decided to do this...doesn't really mean other manufacturers have to go with it? So far Trek is the only company running the Boost 148 setup? Well...if the manufacturers decide to go the 148 route...it means sales on the older stuff...which is good for me. :D
 
I'd place my money on wider hub spacing being accepted by the majority for 29ers. What I wonder about is if there will be some alternative standards popping up before it settles down with one being the more prevalent and popular choice, like offset dropouts to promote zero dish wheels. I believe 110x20's hubs just have wider end caps, similar to what 142x12 did for 135x12. With that broad "Torque Cap" contact surface, Boost 110 will likely measure up favorably to a clamped 110x20mm.

I personally wouldn't mind the 157mm rear getting a bit of modernization. Their flange spacing isn't wider in a number of cases.

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