Anylocal who wants to spread a frame can use our tool for it. We won't do it for you, you do it yourself and break your own frame (highly unlikely, but this is your deal). It's a Hozan tool made only for this job. One bike shop in 600 has one. It hooks onto the rear dropouts and spreads 'em with an all-thread screw, a little at a time. You avoid the grunt-and-sudden huge give that sometimes happens with cruder methods. But if you have only cruder methods at your disposal, here is---not a rock solid formula, but something to go by, sorta:
If the chainstays are normal not heat treated CrMo (QB), you'll have to spread them about 35 to 40mm to effect a 5mm cold-setted diff. The way to do this Hozan-free might be to rig some barriers that don't allow you to pull past that. The H-free technique is" Feet on inside of left dropout, hands pulling on right dropout." Like rowing a boat. Then reparallelize the dropouts. There's a tool for this, too, and any bike shop has it. If yours doesn't, run! G On Dec 1, 7:01 am, Adam <oceanm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am doing some research for a friend who intends to build up either a > Quickbeam or Simpleone with a Rohloff 14 speed hub. He and I recently > did a mini tour down to Half Moon Bay, from Berkeley, and we met a > couple from Switzerland. They had ridden tens of thousands of miles > around the world on their Rohloff hubs and claimed not a single > maintenance problem, best sales pitch ever. He was sold. > > I am curious if anyone on this list has experience building up either > of these frames with a Rohloff, and if the spacing is practical? > > http://www.rohloff.de/en/products/speedhub/index.html > > Also, he is in the search for a Quickbeam or Simpleone in the 57-59 cm > range if there are any out there. > > Cheers, > Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
