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  • anyone know where i can get my hands on titanium nuts?

  • www.justfuckinggoogleit.com

  • www.tastynuts.com
    (courtesy of tynan)

  • http://www.tibolts.co.uk/index.html
    More bolts than you could shake a shitty stick at.

  • thankyou.

  • ok this is one of my most kept secrets, but i ll share. http://www.jaeger-motorsport.de/schraube1.htm

  • In my titanium nut sack! ;)

  • www.tastynuts.co.uk

    (courtesy of tynan)

    Yeah !!! Tasty nuts are good, loads of stuff, quick delivery, super high quality.

    Pretty much all my nuts and bolts on all my bikes are from them.

  • hm, link doesn't seem to bring up anything

  • www.tastynuts.com - sorry everyone!

  • THREAD HIJACK TIME

    Is there a one-size-fits-all for track axles? I believe M10 is what I'm after - but what pitch?

    Also does anybody have a good reason why I shouldn't use a flanged nyloc nut over a regular flanged one?

  • ^if you have sealed bearings, then no. if you have no sealed, then yes, but i dont know what.

  • Campag (and presumably most other cup and cone types) are 26tpi, which is not a size you'll find in normal fastener stockists; it's a bizarre mix of metric diameter and imperial thread pitch. M10 nuts from Tastynuts will be 1.5mm pitch unless they specifically say they are 1.25mm pitch, which is a "fine" pitch used by Japanese motorcycle manufacturers.

    Dont bother with Nylocs even in the unlikely event of finding some which fit, they are not needed in this application and would just make it all but impossible to tighten your nuts without a second wrench on the other end.

  • make it all but impossible to tighten your nuts without a second wrench on the other end

    touché.

    So 1.5 will do me fine?

  • So 1.5 will do me fine?

    Jesus, what are they teaching you kids in school these days? Neither 1.5 nor 1.25 pitch nuts will fit on a spindle which is threaded 26tpi; they are approximately 16tpi and 20tpi respectively.

  • yeah, soz. I couldn't be bothered to do the math myself.

  • yeah, soz. I couldn't be bothered to do the math myself.

    That's 'maths'.

  • je m'excuse.
    I've been living the american dream.

  • je m'excuse.
    I've been living the american dream.

    De nada...

  • Back on the subject of nuts. They have 1mm pitch sprocket nuts... from my calculations that works to be only .02mm out.

  • what hubs do you have?

  • atm some no-names. but imagine I have gran compes. I know I could just measure them myself.

  • Gram compe are M10 x 1mm so the metric nuts should be fine.

    don't trust me. check for yourself.

    EDIT - words like ' gran compe axle track nut thread' are useful.

  • Back on the subject of nuts. They have 1mm pitch sprocket nuts... from my calculations that works to be only .02mm out.

    2.4% is a big tolerance on a fastener which is holding your wheel to your bike.

    Total weight saving is about 12g per pair compared with steel, why bother? Sprocket nuts on a motorbike have a very different purpose from track nuts, since in the one case they are merely a lateral retainer on a system where the load is taken in shear by the studs, while in the other they must provide sufficient preload on the dropout to create the friction which resists the whole of the chain tension.

    Even if you get the Ti nuts, you'll still have to add washers to replace the captive washers which are part of the track nuts, and you'll probably want to find some thick serrated steel ones at that.

  • @ nikuls - the front axle is M9.

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