2016 Axle standards: Boost 148

[Capricorn]

Such awesome naming makes me want to shell out for it now already..

 

 

So, the new Boost 148 really and truly is a new standard, not just a new size, since it requires a new hub shell and new frame. It is similar to 12×142 in that it’s using the same measurements from cassette to dropout and rotor to dropout, as well as the same 3.5mm hub catches in the frame. Where it becomes an entirely new hub is that extra 6mm in the center of the hub shell, widening the entire system.

On the one hand, this is good because it will use existing standards for disc brake mounting and spacing, as well as cassette mounting and spacing. On the other hand, it’s going to cause headaches and cursing because it will require an entirely new hub shell.  There is no simple end cap swap as with 12×142, the Boost standard will be an entirely different hub shell. And it’ll require a new frame to put them in.

But, as you’ll see, it may just lead to much, much better bikes in the very near future.

 

Sauce

 

 

Atm, it seems more of a boon for 29ers, and really, if dishing and lower triangulation due to existing axle standards is insuffiicient, I have no issue with them using a new standard to fix it. But I see this new standard being applied to the smaller wheel sizes too, thus creating churn in the market. The kind of churn that causes existing product lines to vaporising forcing ppl to upgrade. Granted, its never as sudden as that, but its still an unnecessary change  imo :/ 

[Pulse]

So now what?

 

Try not to make major purchases in the next year, as it will become redundant from 2016

[Flowta]

Such awesome naming makes me want to shell out for it now already..

 

 

Sauce

 

 

Atm, it seems more of a boon for 29ers, and really, if dishing and lower triangulation due to existing axle standards is insuffiicient, I have no issue with them using a new standard to fix it. But I see this new standard being applied to the smaller wheel sizes too, thus creating churn in the market. The kind of churn that causes existing product lines to vaporising forcing ppl to upgrade. Granted, its never as sudden as that, but its still an unnecessary change  imo :/ 

 

150mm that's already an existing standard wasn't good enough?

[johanpre44]

Looks like a money-making scheme to me...

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

150mm that's already an existing standard wasn't good enough?

I remember them saying that the extra 1mm each side created problems with the q factor if the bikes. I wonder if they'd heard of fat bikes when they spat that little gob of BS