I am planning a bit of a bodge.

I was hoping someone might be able to confirm/deny that I will be able to use a Hope bolt-through/bolt-up rear in place of a normal QR rear in a rear road frame? The rear QR axles are always 10mm, right? The frame is 130mm but I reckon spreading it to 135mm shouldn’t be a big problem.

Also, can someone tell me the difference between bolt-through and bolt-up?

The pic below looks like a nicer version of using track nuts on a 10mm axle.

Cheers!

Can you really safely spread a road frame by 5mm without putting strain on welds/joints?

The bolt up is pictured above – you literally bolt it in place. The bolt through used a 10mm QR from somewhere like Superstar.

Why would you want to use a 10mm rear axle on a road bike? What’s wrong with a standard QR set up – Hope do a 130mm Pro3 hub.

It’s for a fixie bodge, using a 6-bolt sprocket. The Pro3 sounds good, cheers.

The frame is steel though so I thought would be ok going out by 5mm.

My 10mm bolt-up Pro2 fits in a standard QR drop-out if thats what you mean.

Ouch – Wouldn’t want to do it myself but I can’t see why in theory it wouldn’t work – I presume you are going disc not calliper due to 26″ vs 700c?

takisawa2

Cool, cheers.