Hi This question is for the *alta cockers*
Asking for a good friend who has an early '80's Trek 720 touring bike. We have a mini tour planned later in the month. Riv content is, I'll be on my S.H. or Protovelo. He needs a new wheelset. The specs are 126mm rear triangle. 700c. He's definitely on a budget and looking to keep the costs relatively low...but would like to have a strong wheelset capable of putting on the miles. I don't know enough about old hubs to advise him. Seems like his options are: 1. Buy a used wheelset off of eBay or a list that we could just plug and play 2. Buy some NOS or lightly used front and rear hubs off of eBay or a list and have a new set of wheels built that may be a little more robust and modern than something we find used 3. Buy a new Velo Orange PBP 100/126 wheelset at around $400 4. Get the rear triangle re-spaced to 130mm and all of a sudden, a lot more hubs/wheels are open to us at potentially a better cost. Also, we have a couple of questions related to the above... 1. Is there a practical difference in usage between a 126mm freewheel hub and a 126mm cassette hubs beyond just the type of cluster used? in other words, is there any reason to think that a frame designed for a 6 speed freewheel would have any issue with a 6 speed cassette? 2. Similarly, am I correct in thinking that a 7 speed freewheel/cassette would also fit on a hub originally designed for a 6 speed freewheel/cassette? Thank you -- 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.
