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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Podcast: What is Boost 148 and Other MTB Wheel Questions

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Sports, Wilderness

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we talk with Dustin at Southern Wheelworks about the advantages of Boost 148 and why hub standards are continuing to evolve. Dustin also fills us in on some of the techniques pro wheel builders use and talks about ways to save weight (and $$) on your next build.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.3

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0:11.7

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0:15.3

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0:19.0

participation may vary.

0:22.6

Hey everybody.

0:23.5

Thanks for joining us for the Single Tracks podcast.

0:25.9

Today, it's me, Jeff, and Aaron.

0:27.9

And we're also joined by a special guest, Dustin, from Southern Wheelworks.

0:32.1

Thanks for joining us, Dustin.

0:34.0

Hey, thanks for having me.

0:35.7

So today we're going to be talking a bit about wheel building and specifically Boost 148.

0:42.0

And Dustin is a wheel builder.

0:44.3

His southern wheelworks company builds custom mountain bike wheels.

0:48.6

And so I wanted to start off, Dustin, by asking you to explain a little bit about what Boost 148 is exactly when it comes to wheels and hubs and all that stuff.

0:59.4

So there's boost standard for both the front and rear.

1:03.3

The 148 is the rear spacing.

1:06.5

And basically what they've done is they've taken a 142 millimeter through axle hub,

1:11.6

and they've stretched it out to 148 millimeters wide.

1:16.6

Now what's significant about it is they actually changed the hub shell,

1:21.6

not just the overall length from the in-cap to the in-cap.

1:24.6

So for example, like the traditional 135-millimeter quick-release hub is the same

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