Author Topic: Thorn Nomad rear rack dropout.... 6mm or 5mm...... ??  (Read 1360 times)

MikeD

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Thorn Nomad rear rack dropout.... 6mm or 5mm...... ??
« on: May 11, 2010, 02:39:35 pm »
As recently discussed in this thread

http://www.thorncycles.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=2490.0

As well as a few other threads on this forum, I have been trying to once and for all find the actual size..... In the PDF brochure issue 2 April 2010, it states, on page 11:

"The Nomad Mk2, has 3 stainless bottle cage bosses, 6mm carrier bosses, huge tyre clearances. It has stainless guides, stainless eccentric screws and bosses, it has our own stainless, Rohloff-specific dropouts and it has direct-fit mudguard mounts. It’s got the lot! It has even got a rear ISO disc mount and removable V brake bosses."

I, as a few others thought this meant that ALL fixings were 6mm...... After several emails back and forth, I were assured that this was the case. Then a day later another email arrives with this text>

Looking more closely into this I have found the that lower rear rack braze-on is 5mm. We use a drop out adaptor which is 6mm


I am no longer in doubt.

Please see this thread for a little of my thoughts on this, and a short conversation with Andy Blance.:

http://www.thorncycles.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=2490.0

Regards
Mike