JT! Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 Got a monty hub, but all the spacers are on the non disc side. So i would have thought if anything the rotor would be too close, I've actually ran out of shims and had to use one of those things that screw onto an innertube valve to have had more to play with. I think it might just be in the right place now. But have i done something stupid? I've got like 5mm of shims.Czar frame, monty hub, echo smail cams, +40mm adaptor. Hope mono trial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam F Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 Its deffo somthing with the monty hubs, i got the exact same problem when i got my SL forks.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 Thats your forks Sam, mine was fine on Lite forks with about 0.5mm spacers in.JT, it's the design of the hub, they're designed to have the snail cams outside the dropout, so if you think about it, the dropout is flat and the end of the axle is meant to be flat with that. To use in a normal frame you have to have the snail cam and a 1mm spacer either side.I had to have about 6-7mm of spacers in mine, I ran it like that for a year!Because you have a +40 adapter, I'd recommend binning it and getting some 5-6mm thick aluminium, then making a flat one out of that. This will take up the gap and be stiffer than the +40 with millions of spacers. You could also make it so it's lower down to the frame and neater simply by rotating the caliper foward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted April 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 f**k. You're right i wasn't running cams on my old frame.I don't do 'making things' because i'm useless at that kind of stuff, so i'll guess i'll leave it as is. I've also just noticed there's actually only 1mm of axel in the dropout of the non disc side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 That's wierd, the ends of the axles are normally like 8-9mm long? So with 3mm taken up by the snail cam you should be able to still have 4-5mm inside the dropout.Is it the white hub or black? I can't remember much about my black one, (the one I used with my adaptor on my 06 lite). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted April 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 The axel is shorter, i have the black hub, it's old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam F Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 With my Dob because i had soo much un-used axle as there 110mm i got a 14mm nut and grinded it down to about 4mm and slotted it in.Not that info was any use to you but i thought you might of liked to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 Why are you running a 203 on the back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted April 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2009 Why are you running a 203 on the back?I had avids when i got the bike and they were both 203mm (front and back) and the rear brake was crap (they were set up poorly). I never liked avids anyway (whole other story) so got rid of them as soon as possible. I'd had a 185mm hope mono trial on the front before on m echo and was happy with it as a front brake but thought it wouldn't hold on the back, and the weight difference to go to a 203 from a 185 would be virtually nothing so that's what i did. And i'm glad i did.I don't really see any disadvantages other than a little bit of extra weight and the possibility that it might break under it's down power - which it probably will with the way i have it set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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