Re: disc brake/wire wheels

In a message dated 1/6/01 10:27:16 PM, busyrider@springmail.com writes:

<<But doesn't this just mean that there is less contact area at the hub end 
instead of the diff?

If that's the case, what's gained?

Fred C.
>>

Somebody with a physics degree will probably shoot this down, but you a 
putting more contact area of the axle in the diff end, where the axles 
usually break rather than at the hub end, where breakage doesn't generally 
occur. It's worked for me, with 4:55
rear gears.

Rick