15mm - the new axle standard
Plenty of us have written off the 15mm axle standard as a 20mm wannabe. After all there was nothing wrong with 20mm but there were plenty of issues with 9mm. Considering that 9mm is a road standard that morphed over into the mountain bike world it is really past it’s usefulness for the front end of modern long travel suspension that now exists. Fox, DT Swiss and Marzocchi now offer 9mm and 15mm variants of their forks and American Classic, Chris King, DT Swiss and others now offer 9mm and 15mm hubs. Therefore, even though it feels like Betamax syndrome to me, it appears that 15mm is here to stay. Obviously, the new Fox forks in 15mm are new and cool but my favorite new 15mm part at the show was the American Classic 15mm hub. The hub is a svelte 116g and appears to be made to AM strict standards.

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