Hope make kits to make your 100mm hub boost 110. Brake side stays where it is, drive side is 10mm wider cap and you need to dish the wheel to compensate. Small bonus is a more even triangle for your spokes but it’s a pretty marginal benefit, the bigger benefit is not buying a new hub yet but still having boost forks that may or may not be more future proof
That’s a crap solution, why not simply space either end +5mm and space the rotor outboard? No need to go re-dishing/rebuilding wheels…
TBH if I was in the position to choose right now, I would buy a boost fork and worry about adapting or replacing the hub/wheel as a matter of “future proofing”.
But if you’ve no pressing need to be bang up to date, and would rather save a few quid now I can’t imagine 15x100mm hubs vanishing from the shops overnight, plus aftermarket boost hubs still seem a little thin on the ground and slightly pricier…
The tactic is more to push boost forks into the OE market and make the customers follow along…
What about at the rear? I’m looking at discounted 2017 Transition frames that are all 142…. I presume they will be boosted for 2018
This is another good point, I am in a similar position, trying to choose between possible 142mm 29er frames or 148mm 27+/29″ compatible.
For now I am choosing to put the hub standards to one side and compare frames on their other attributes… But it’s hard to say longer term if “boost” will become the dominant industry standard for most MTB frames or if 142mm will be retained and used as another sub division of the market…