Originally Posted by
SpedFast
Thanks for that information. I'm going to clean up the 8spd setup in the parts bin and see about building a wheel around it if, and that's a big if, the hub will fit properly in the frame. I don't have a problem cold setting it wider, but not much. At this point the bike is still rideable so there is no push to make it happen. I might just opt to buy another 'used' bike with the brifters already set up on it and donate the old bike. (Wife only lets me have 2 at a time).
Just to be clear, you can cold set wider than 2mm each side (~5mm total), but doing it by hand each time would get OLD (nyuk) really quickly for more than a very few mm total. Re: your domestic situation. Insist on the right to have (not that you will) 1/2 as many bikes as she has pairs of shoes. Problem solved. In the unlikely event that that fails ... there is Tinder.