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Hi all, I just bought a commencal meta am and the axle is listed as 142 * 12, so I bought a DT Swiss RWS 142X12 but it does not fit. The screw thread is a completely different cut. Any ideas what axle I do need?
Cheers in advance
I believe there are two types of 142mm axle, must be the other type, shimano perhaps?
Maxle i think/hope...
Sneaky of them not have supplied it IMO...
bloody cheeky now I have seen the cost!
Check the Commencal website shop on there is a formula 142mm axle
Looks just like a Maxle but significantly cheaper (although factor in postage so it may be worth also getting the rear mudguard to protect the shock
http://www.commencal-store.com/Mobile/MBSCProduct.asp?pdtid=10484455
I take it you've bough the frame new?? in which case it shoul;d come with an axal all other brands surply them that i kow of!!!it is like surplying it with out it's rearshox totaly not fit for purpose...
contact your shop where you got it from or commencal see what they have to say first.
Yeah if the frame is new it should have been supplied with the correct maxle
Frame only says on the site maxle not included, Frameset didn't - which led me to believe it would be included...
It doesn't come with axle
Anyone my idea how you fit the press fit BB to the Meta AM?
There is a lump of metl that protrudes intk te BB shell, right where the BB cups go, looks like the only way is to cut down the plastic cups that house the bearings
I'll have a look at mine tonight and see if its there in mine...
It will be its part of the frame design
It will be its part of the frame design
Google honesty translates to
please let me not have to send it back, please let me not have to send it back, please let me not have to send it back, please let me not have to send it back
I just cut the flanges of the plastic shimano push fit bb, once I had realised (which was after a long time trying to force it in!).
Just spent nearly three hours running all the cables internally which was tough. It does look good though.
msjhes
thats what I figured I will have to do
I ran cables easy enough though, took about 30 minutes to feed a pilot wire (nylon washing line) through. I started at bottom bracket and fed it forwards towards the bigger headtube holes and backwards, using some tweezers to get the wire out the smaller holes. Tape outer cable to the pilot wire and pull it back through. Just got brakes and Reverb to dismantle and get through now
makes sense, I did it with out a pilot wire and struggled to get the rear mech one through the chain stays.
The reverb is the only one i have not done. how easy is it to remove and refit the cable?
easyish from the remote end, just twists undone, don't know how hard to do without loosing fluid though, but its not like brakes - doesn't get subjected to high pressure etc...
I'd be wanting ro drain all the fluid from it, save it leaking on the paintwork