Here's some bike nerdery for you to think about Andrew....Way back in the day (2008) I got a Hope SS hub so as to build the strongest 29er wheel I could and ran it with 6-7 cogs, depending on if I machined the alu carrier of an XT or not. This thought has come and gone for me over the years since, but would it be possible to get a custom machined axle made to extend it to be either a 148 or 157 wide hub, running a full length freehub body, but haven't really sat down in any programs to do any drawings or calculations to see if it would be possible.
Jan. 17, 2022, 8:36 a.m. - Lynx .
Here's some bike nerdery for you to think about Andrew....Way back in the day (2008) I got a Hope SS hub so as to build the strongest 29er wheel I could and ran it with 6-7 cogs, depending on if I machined the alu carrier of an XT or not. This thought has come and gone for me over the years since, but would it be possible to get a custom machined axle made to extend it to be either a 148 or 157 wide hub, running a full length freehub body, but haven't really sat down in any programs to do any drawings or calculations to see if it would be possible.