The 46 was given to me by Phil Wood sales staff. I've seen it somewhere also, let me see if I can dig that up.... Yes, the Paul hubs are @ 44. I'm not sure about WI.
On Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 12:24:10 AM UTC-5, Jeremy Till wrote: > > Hey Wally- > > Can I ask where you read that the chainline on the Phil hub was 42mm on > the fixed side and 46mm on the freewheel side? I've been working on > flip-flop hubs for a long time, I even had Phil one for a while (not on the > QB, on my erstwhile Salsa Casseroll), and I've never heard that before. To > my knowledge, Phil has only ever made their track hubs for a standard 42mm > chainline. > > If I remember correctly, Paul made their track hubs with a > slightly-wider-than-normal 44mm chainline and the chainline on the White > Industries ENO hubs was around 47mm. > > Since a flip-flop hub is designed to allow swapping between cogs/FW on > either side without changing anything else, it would be really weird to > have one where the chainlines didn't line up. I could certainly imagine > that when all was said and done and you measured chainline with a fixed cog > and freewheel installed that they weren't dead on the same, but I'd have a > hard time imagining that they would be far enough off to cause issues or > clearance problems like you're asking about. > > I believe that our fearless list moderator, Mr. Cyclofiend Jim, runs a > Phil hub on the back of his QB, so he might be a good guy to ask. > > -Jeremy > > On Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 4:25:40 AM UTC-8, Wally Estrella wrote: >> >> HI Ted: >> >> the chainline on the QB is 42, from what I've read, the chain line on a >> PW freewheel track hub is 46. So, yeah, I guess that's what I'm >> confusingly asking. Would there be any clearance issues w/ a 46 chain line >> and going up larger on either the chain ring or cog as? Sorry, just >> overthinking the simplicity of it. Sounds like it'll work just fine, so >> I'll just do it. >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 9:33:19 PM UTC-5, ted wrote: >>> >>> Hey Wally, >>> >>> Im not clear on what you are concerned about, and my bike is a SO >>> instead of a QB, but I've got a 44t ring at ~42mm chain line on a short >>> (107?) PW bottom bracket. No problem with clearance, if that helps at all. >>> >>> On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 11:24:21 AM UTC-8, Wally Estrella wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Folks: >>>> >>>> I've seen numerous pictures of QBs with Phil Wood hubs on them, but >>>> can't recall if it was fixed or freewheel. From what I understand the >>>> fixed side of the PW track hub is 42. The freewheel hub is 46. >>>> >>>> Is 46 chainline on a QB an issue from dropout to BB/chain stay >>>> clearances? I'm using a single ring up front @ 40t ring and thinking of >>>> upping it to a 44 w/ a new PW freewheel on the rear. >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Wally >>>> >>> -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
