Campagnolo Record hubs, Shimano Dura-Ace 7-speed freewheel, 130mmrear dropout spacing incompatibility?

I recently "inherited" some new tubular rims with Old School Record hubs
and a new Dura-Ace 7-speed freewheel. The axles appear to be too short
to fit properly in an aluminum framed road bike with 130mm rear spacing.

Is there a cost-effective solution to get the aforementioned tubbies
working with an 8 speed STI drivetrain?

Anyone with a working solution? Thanks.

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Long live the tubular :-)

"B" wrote in message
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I recently "inherited" some new tubular rims with Old School Record hubs
and a new Dura-Ace 7-speed freewheel. The axles appear to be too short to
fit properly in an aluminum framed road bike with 130mm rear spacing.

Is there a cost-effective solution to get the aforementioned tubbies
working with an 8 speed STI drivetrain?

Anyone with a working solution? Thanks.

Ya. Sell the wheels on ebay and buy a proper set.

Anything else is going to cost you a lot more.

You'll get $75 for the wheels, maybe $100. If you rebuild the wheels, you'll
spend $75 for spokes alone, plus the hubs, plus the labor. You'll be into
those new tubular rims for another $200. You can get a set of wheels on ebay
for less than $200.

Lee

Lee

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In article , B wrote:
I recently "inherited" some new tubular rims with Old School Record hubs
and a new Dura-Ace 7-speed freewheel. The axles appear to be too short
to fit properly in an aluminum framed road bike with 130mm rear spacing.

Is there a cost-effective solution to get the aforementioned tubbies
working with an 8 speed STI drivetrain?

_ All you need is 2mm more on each side, you should be able to
get that with just an extra axle spacer on each side. That should
still leave you with enough axle ( 3mm according to Sheldon ) to
safely use the wheels. You could try just 1 mm on each side,
a 128mm hub in a 130mm Aluminum frame would probably be okay.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/frame-spacing.html

_ Of course if these where really old record hubs that have
already been bodged to go from 120mm to 126mm, then this won't
work.


Anyone with a working solution? Thanks.

_ If you aren't comfortable with the bodge above, just buy a new
longer axle and a couple 2mm spacers.

_ Booker C. Bense

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B wrote:
I recently "inherited" some new tubular rims with Old School Record hubs
and a new Dura-Ace 7-speed freewheel. The axles appear to be too short
to fit properly in an aluminum framed road bike with 130mm rear spacing.

Is there a cost-effective solution to get the aforementioned tubbies
working with an 8 speed STI drivetrain?

Anyone with a working solution? Thanks.

___________________________________

Long live the tubular :-)

Get a 141mm axle in dimension of 10by 26...install with 2mm spacers
additional on each side, adjust rear derlimit screws and use 6
clicks(7s) and it will work great.

Lee wrote:


Ya. Sell the wheels on ebay and buy a proper set.

Anything else is going to cost you a lot more.

You'll get $75 for the wheels, maybe $100. If you rebuild the wheels, you'll
spend $75 for spokes alone, plus the hubs, plus the labor. You'll be into
those new tubular rims for another $200. You can get a set of wheels on ebay
for less than $200.

Lee

Lee

Bugle oil. Axles are $10...spacers are generally free.

In article , says...

I recently "inherited" some new tubular rims with Old School Record hubs
and a new Dura-Ace 7-speed freewheel. The axles appear to be too short
to fit properly in an aluminum framed road bike with 130mm rear spacing.
Is there a cost-effective solution to get the aforementioned tubbies
working with an 8 speed STI drivetrain?

You can swap in a longer axle and redish the wheel, that's the easy part. Then
you would need to find an 8spd freewheel that had shimano spacing, that is the
harder part.
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Alex

"Lee" lee_AT_SHOES_wheelman_DOT_com writes:

"B" wrote in message
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I recently "inherited" some new tubular rims with Old School Record hubs
and a new Dura-Ace 7-speed freewheel. The axles appear to be too short to
fit properly in an aluminum framed road bike with 130mm rear spacing.

Is there a cost-effective solution to get the aforementioned tubbies
working with an 8 speed STI drivetrain?

You can get a new wheels manufacturing axle (146mm? x 10mm x 26 tpi)
for maybe $15, spacers a dollar or two. However, you need to watch
the spacing on the rear cog:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/k7.html

See the "sprocket spacing" table at the bottom of the page.
Hopefully, your dura ace freewheel is new enough to be hyperglide
compatible.

As someone who just broke an axle 3 weeks ago, I think its a good idea
to weigh less than 180 lbs if using a 130 mm rear hub.

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA

Donald Gillies wrote:

As someone who just broke an axle 3 weeks ago, I think its a good idea
to weigh less than 180 lbs if using a 130 mm rear hub.

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA

Depends. I am over 180 pounds(202), and have used 130mm freewheel hubs
for years and see no broken axles...gotta be careful and I do have ti
axles on my Record hubs, and do use Phil hubs but with a well aligned
frame and some care...no problem.