Good you mentioned the rear triangle was steel, doing it with Aluminum and you’ll do mega damage.

It never donned on me to compress a rear triangle (am more accustomed to spreading them), will the V Brakes still

Align if you go from 135mm to say 100mm? Have you tried compressing a swing arm yet?

-----Original Message-----
From: Cruzbike@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Cruzbike@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Tolhurst
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 6:32 PM
To: Cruzbike@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Cruzbike] Re: More wheel drama....

> My front dropout is 130mm and the rear is 140 (135) so I would need 2
> different rear hubs, or 2 130mm hubs and shim out the rear one with a
> few spacers to make up 5mm
>
> Any thoughts?
>
The Honda is a steel frame bike right? Take the rear wheel out, lie
the bike down and jump on rear triangle! OK, so maybe you not as crude
as I was building prototypes. My LBS has a jig for doing this. I bent
a couple right in to 100 mm before I had the tricky new axles.

If you want QR in the back, you need a 130mm x 3/8 UNF quick release
bolt, so that you can use the special low profile cones (15x11.5mm).
Having said that, I don't know for sure if that spec are available.

Regards,
John