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dglee seb-stott's article
Jun 11, 2021 at 15:54
Jun 11, 2021
First Look: Forkmods' 20x110 to 15x110 Axle Conversion Kit
@5afety3rd: the bearings for 9/10mm QR and 15mm are completely different, as are the hub shells. A 10mm axle could be fitted directly through a sealed bearing or interface with the cone and bearing since the 5mm skewer secured the hub into the fork. 15mm hubs have an 18-19mm axle for cup and cone type or at least 15mm for sealed bearings.
dglee seb-stott's article
Jun 11, 2021 at 14:22
Jun 11, 2021
First Look: Forkmods' 20x110 to 15x110 Axle Conversion Kit
@5afety3rd: think engineering
dglee seb-stott's article
Jun 11, 2021 at 14:21
Jun 11, 2021
First Look: Forkmods' 20x110 to 15x110 Axle Conversion Kit
@Tmackstab: agreed, 9mm QR is effectively 5mm QR, the skewer diameter. 20mm was seen as too much bulk and troublesome when it was made lighter, 15QR opened up a whole lot of options.
dglee seb-stott's article
Jun 11, 2021 at 6:00
Jun 11, 2021
First Look: Forkmods' 20x110 to 15x110 Axle Conversion Kit
@Mondbiker: yes, Fox and Shimano co-developed 15x100. External (BB tool) rotor lock rings were introduced at the same time. Boost was developed by SRAM.
dglee seb-stott's article
Jun 11, 2021 at 5:45
Jun 11, 2021
First Look: Forkmods' 20x110 to 15x110 Axle Conversion Kit
@tremeer023: yep, thats what the Fox tech guys said. At the time there were 140mm QR forks, super flexible, or 150mm 20TA forks, solid but heavy. A big axle needs a big drop out, pinch bolts etc, all that was gone with 15QR.
dglee seb-stott's article
Jun 11, 2021 at 5:29
Jun 11, 2021
First Look: Forkmods' 20x110 to 15x110 Axle Conversion Kit
@Mondbiker: centrelock disc brakes were introduced in 2003, when M960 XTR was introduced for MY04. 15mm TA was introduced in 2008 for MY09 forks, sure, Shimano makes the axle and co-developed the interface, but centrelock wasn't the trigger, 6 bolt 15TA hubs were made by Shimano until 2013 as well.
dglee seb-stott's article
Jun 11, 2021 at 5:11
Jun 11, 2021
First Look: Forkmods' 20x110 to 15x110 Axle Conversion Kit
@5afety3rd: I went to the Fox launch of 15mm axles, the reason behind it was born from 20mm being made lighter and lighter to suit the emerging market for light but strong single crown forks, as the 20mm axle became lighter and wall thickness of the axle decreased the sheer strength also decreased, a lot. So to increase sheer strength while not gaining weight the 15mm axle was born, and trail forks as we knew them changed forever.
dglee jamessmurthwaite's article
May 10, 2021 at 14:00
May 10, 2021
Starling Introduces Limited Edition Stainless Steel Version of the Murmur
A bit of vegetation hanging on the lateral brace of the swingarm
dglee sarahmoore's article
Apr 26, 2021 at 17:50
Apr 26, 2021
Field Trip: BMC's $1,599 Twostroke is Perfect for Your First XC Race
Specialized Fuse is pretty cool, 66.5 HA 440 reach in a medium. Hard to find for sale at the moment though
dglee pinkbikeoriginals's article
Apr 18, 2021 at 21:38
Apr 18, 2021
Video: 6 MORE New MTB Products For 2021 - Pond Beaver 2021
Shimano's Hollow Forged crank arms, made in one piece, started at M950 XTR and Dura-Ace 7700, the technique is still used for XT and SLX and some road/gravel offerings as well. The last 2 generations of XTR have used a cold forged and bonded (2 piece) method for XC crank sets in M9000 series and all M9100/20/30. M9020 were hollow forged only.
Cannondale HollowGram cranksets started out as Magic Motorcycle cranks, designed by Alex Pong in the '90's, when Cannondale bought the technology manufacturing was done at their factory in the US, this has most likely changed now though.
IMO the FSA KFX crankset is more equivalent to XTR in construction