Originally Posted by
Marcus_Ti
12mm axles and therefore hubs can be made smaller and lighter than 15mm hubs...in cases where the end-caps are not swappable to the larger size. Which some hubs just have swappable caps....many many more do not.
Okay I figured that would be the likely reason, but do you by any chance know what the weight savings would be on average?
I guess with the bike industry being so weight obsessed with its parts, even a 10 to 20 gram saving per wheel would probably inspire the creation of a new standard.
