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Old August 11th 05, 03:34 PM
Jeff Starr
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Default The one thing that couldn't go wrong, did go wrong.

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:08:24 GMT, Blair P. Houghton wrote:



Turns out I'd mis-measured my rear stays and they're only
124 mm. The frame is made of steel. It's reinforced by the
brake mount, so it doesn't flex much the way I need it to.
No way am I bending this frame, and I really don't want to
have anyone else do it either.


--Blair


Why not? What brand of frame is it?

Really 4-6mm is not a lot of bending.

No surprise here, Sheldon has the info needed, take a look:
http://sheldonbrown.com/frame-spacing.html

My vote is for respacing.


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Jeff
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