I’m having problems fitting a pair of new wheels onto my hardtail and need to pick the collective brains of you lot. Can you correct me / help me / point me in the right direction with this?
Bike is a Scott Scale 50 from last year, 08 model. New wheels are Mavic Crossmax ST UST disc.
When the wheels are on, they are either too loose and fall out of the dropouts, or the disc rotor is uber tight up against the caliper and it wont spin. I’m wondering if these things are compatible at all (LBS says yes) as the wheels that came with the Scott measure 145mm from either end of the hub. I dont have any caliper whatsits so can only measure the total length of the hub, not the outside of shoulder to outside of shoulder size, which is where I think the offical specs are done from.
So thats 145mm from where the QR skewer dissapperas into the hub to where it pops out again on the old wheels, which are fine. The new ones measure 138mm but are giving me problems.
So, is there an easy way of measuring the outside of shoulder to outside of shoulder length without calipers?
Is the hub spacing of a frame measured from inside to inside?
Anyone know the hub spacing on the back end of a Scale?
I’m thinking that the frame is either a funny size but I cant find anything on google about it or that my wheels are missing something. I cant see anyway of adding spacers to them either.
Oh, and the front fits ok into the fox forks that came with it.
Help!!