Mitchell You should email Will about your questions. I had a similar idea about going 126mm, but I imagine I would just machine down the end cap on my lathe. Running the numbers, they say that the center to flange distances for 135mm are: 38.3mm and 21.8mm. If we just lopped off 9mm from the left to get to 126mm, that would shift the center over by 4.5mm, so the drive side center to flange would become 17.3mm, and the non-drive-side center to flange would be 42.8mm. That's a pretty extreme imbalance. 17mm is not uncommon with 11-speed hubs, but 42.8mm is massive and would mean the NDS tension would be really low. So, what I'd look for is to see if there's room to take 2 or 3mm off the drive side end cap instead of taking it all off the NDS. If we could get those center to flange numbers to around 40mm and 20mm, that would be something I could be more comfortable with.
Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 8:50:21 AM UTC-7 Mitchell Gass wrote: > These check a lot of my boxes: great for low-dish wheels, cold-forged > body, steel cassette body, cartridge bearings. I was going to contact Riv > with some questions about them, but maybe people here already know the > answers: > > - Do they include quick releases? > - They're currently 135 mm OLN only. When will the end caps for 130 mm OLN > be available? > - Are there any thoughts about getting end caps for 126 OLN? > - What's involved in replacing the bearings and lubing the pawls? What > tools are needed? What bearings does it take? Is there, or will there be, a > video showing how to take these apart and put them back together? > - Will Riv carry spare parts for these, such as replacement pawls and > cassette bodies? > > Mitchell Gass > Berkeley CA USA > > On Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 5:48:00 AM UTC-7 Ryan wrote: > >> Yes...they are good-looking hubs. Did you buy them? >> >> On Friday, April 12, 2024 at 6:48:19 PM UTC-5 Luke Hendrickson wrote: >> >>> [image: R0005110.jpeg]Yes, these are really, really nice. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/eecfc64f-aefb-498c-bf84-f2adc440365en%40googlegroups.com.
