On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:08 PM, R Gonet<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>  It is true that the 8sp hubs will not
>> generally fit on a stock QB, but you could probably cold-set to 132 or
>> whatever is needed.
>
>
> Would please explain what you mean by cold-set.  Thanks.

Cold-setting is basically bending the metal w/o heating it, in this
case the rear triangle. It's the same thing the framebuilder does with
the initial alignment of the bike. Done carefully (and only with steel
frames), it's a safe method for changing the dropout spacing for using
a different OLD hub.

-- 
Bill Connell
St. Paul, MN

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