advice needed please?

[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]

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.

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.

[Sanmarcopizza]

Remember, they only need to be flat where they go into the drop out, not the whole length. I had to file the threads down to squeeze my wheels into my Robinson. Given the option I I guess I would have preferred to swap the spindle, but they were DK sealed hubs and the spindle was a bit unusual. If they are looseball then it's not so much a problem to get an axle kit.