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It's interesting that, despite having 3 road(ish) bikes, I don't actually know what the standards are that you're referring to. I'm still running QRs and rim brakes (2 x 10 Campag is as modern as I have), and I don't anticipate any problems finding spares (even for the really old stuff). This sounds like a fairly standard instance of the most recent technologies, which trickle down from high-performance applications, running the risk of not ending up as the de-facto standard. If you always buy the tech that's very "now" you risk it becoming very "then".
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The other day I was looking for some new spares at decent prices, mid range. In general at shimano hubs.
The research got me a bit thinking, as it seemed that it becomes more difficult to find hubs with QR/6 bolt disks to fit the 100/135mm standards. Looking at through axels I struggled to find decent hubs to fit in those dimensions to use them with adaptors. This made me wonder if a perfectly good, 4 years old, steel frame, for which you take care, might be obsolete in a year time because of that?
Personally I am not a fan of 2nd hand stuff when it come to wear prone moving parts and I am a bit worried due of the aspect highlighted above.
What is your take on this? Are you stocking on parts to run your bikes for as long as possible?