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pickle:
Just got some luuuurvly new wheels (many thanks adam) but my Skyway forks are a little narrow to get the axle in  ???  they expand to allow the hub to sit correctly in the forks but i guess you need one of those axles with the sides flattened (tuffs?) what should i do? file the forks? file the axle? get new flattened axle?

anyone else had the same problem?

ORB:
Buy a new axle from Alans or Badger, A tuff front spindle should have the flattened sides to it so yours must have been swapped out at some point.

theRuler:
if you can get one, get a flat sided axle.

someone on here should have one going i reckon.

i got some forks too that will only take a flat sider on the front.

it would take some filing to flat side it yourself. you'd probably end up munching the threads

pickle:

--- Quote from: ORB on October 31, 2005, 12:20 PM ---Buy a new axle from Alans or Badger, A tuff front spindle should have the flattened sides to it so yours must have been swapped out at some point.



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my new wheels are not tuffs, so i guess thats why i have the problem......my old tuffs (which i no longer have) did have the flat axle  :(  stupid forks!  >:(

anyone got an old one they don't want?

theRuler:
you want one out of an alloy hub (i presume thats what you have) so all the cones n stuff fit. i think tuffs have a different thread pitch.

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