sidewinder-
Longevity mostly. Front road bolt thru has settled down on 12mm, everyone uses that standard, so pretty happy that it's a keeper. With the rear, there is still a bit of dicking around, 142mm seems like it might be settled on standard, but even there there's a lot of mucking arounf with drop out designs. Add to that the fact that, while bolt thru makes a great deal of sense on the front of a disc braked bike, and bikes in general, I haven't found myself feeling the same with bolt thru on the rear, there are other things much more important for stiffness down low.
I think it will eventually migrate to bolt thru, but there is going to be 135mm rear QR wheels available for the foreseeable future, so until the industry settles its rear end bun fight we are going to run with 135mm.
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Road Disc brake specific bike
Hand Made from Reynolds 853, Columbus spirit
and life and dedaccai zero tubing
Columbus futura gravel fork with through axle, flat mount disc,
mudguard mounts and tapered 1 1/8 - 1 1/4 carbon steerer
44mm headtube
Flat mount disc dropouts
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Internal routing for brake cables
Internal routing through frame for Dynamo cables
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SRS though, any questions just drop me a line.