Phil Wood Track Hub Spacers

[dlbracey]

This is my first thread, so if I'm in breach of any sort of forum etiquette, please excuse me and correct me.

I recently (hastily) :crap: purchased a set of track wheels with Phil Wood hubs for a bike that I'm building. The hubs are spaced 120mm, but my frame is 130mm. Phil Wood is willing to sell me a conversion kit for $72 ($59 elsewhere online) which is basically just two longer nuts that will take up the extra space (picture below). Has anyone found a less expensive solution (short of bending the frame)? $60 is a lot of dough for 10mm...

Thanks for any advice you might have.

http://www.universalcycles.com/images//products/large/12516.jpg

[Scott Shire]

If the frame is steel you can spread it yourself, as you hinted at:
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/frame-spacing.html

If it's not, the Phil solution is the only reliable fix that I'm aware of.

But give up on the conversion. You're running about the most baller hubs available and you're going to kludge it up? A PW track hubset retails north of $500, so $60 seems like just a little bit more to go if you DO want to use that frame, and then you'll have usable hubs if you upgrade frames, or hubs that are easily flipped on the bay.

[oldpotatoe]

This is my first thread, so if I'm in breach of any sort of forum etiquette, please excuse me and correct me.

I recently (hastily) :crap: purchased a set of track wheels with Phil Wood hubs for a bike that I'm building. The hubs are spaced 120mm, but my frame is 130mm. Phil Wood is willing to sell me a conversion kit for $72 ($59 elsewhere online) which is basically just two longer nuts that will take up the extra space (picture below). Has anyone found a less expensive solution (short of bending the frame)? $60 is a lot of dough for 10mm...

Thanks for any advice you might have.

http://www.universalcycles.com/images//products/large/12516.jpg


Great hubs and retail for a lot. Step up and get the axle ends. BTW-I wouldn't spread a steel frame 10mm, if it is steel. Big chance of crimping a stay or popping a seat stay or chainstay bridge off. That would be more $ than 60 or so dollars

[dlbracey]

Thanks for the advice. I ended up buying the phil axle ends. These puppies ride great.

[Peter B]

Thanks for the advice. I ended up buying the phil axle ends. These puppies ride great.


Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner!

Best choice for those fine hubs. You won't regret it, but you will forget it by the time those hubs wear out.