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White Industries Eccentric SS Hub
"Dave Stocker" wrote in message ... "bloocow" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... Hey all, I've found only a couple of mentions here about this hub on google. It seems like the best way to go if I want to solve problems of tensioning and lousy seals on Shimano freewheel bearings. My worry now is how well this hub works so if anyone has any comments/experience with it, I'm listening. I first heard it mentioned by Sheldon Brown. It is new; as in just available and it is also a flip flop (one side fixed and the other side takes a freewheel) hub, so it is not surprising that there are no reviews at mtbr.com for it. It sounds intersting, but at $200 I do not want to be the gunea pig. -Dave Yes it is expensive. :-\ I just found out one side is fixed, something I don't want so I'm not sure if I'll go for it but I really do want to remove my tensioner. bloocow |
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I've found only a couple of mentions here about this hub on google. It
seems like the best way to go if I want to solve problems of tensioning and lousy seals on Shimano freewheel bearings. My worry now is how well this hub works so if anyone has any comments/experience with it, I'm listening. It works great! I love mine. I first heard it mentioned by Sheldon Brown. It is new; as in just available and it is also a flip flop (one side fixed and the other side takes a freewheel) hub, so it is not surprising that there are no reviews at mtbr.com for it. It sounds intersting, but at $200 I do not want to be It's only $159.95, and if you subtract the $50 cost of a decent chain tensioner, it becomes quite reasonable. Yes it is expensive. :-\ I just found out one side is fixed, something I don't want so I'm not sure if I'll go for it but I really do want to remove my tensioner. The fixed option is purely positive. If you don't want to use the fixed gear, just take off the lockring and screw a freewheel on the fixed side instead. There's no obstacle at all to using this with two freewheels. There's no downside to the fixed gear threading, and who knows, sometime you might decide you want to take the bike onroad, and discover how much more fun a fixed gear is. Before the invention of this hub, kludgy half-derailer chain tensioners made a sort of sense, but the ENO hub is a way better solution to the vertical dropout problem. Now that there's a choice, pulley-type chain tensioners are really mono-buttocked. See: http://sheldonbrown.com/harris/white-hubs.html Sheldon "Eccentric" Brown +----------------------------------------------+ | Music expresses that which cannot be said | | and on which it is impossible to be silent. | | --Victor Hugo | +----------------------------------------------+ Harris Cyclery, West Newton, Massachusetts Phone 617-244-9772 FAX 617-244-1041 http://harriscyclery.com Hard-to-find parts shipped Worldwide http://captainbike.com http://sheldonbrown.com |
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White Industries Eccentric SS Hub
"bloocow" wrote in message ... Flip flops are really good for me cus I usually ride to the trails here in microscopic Singapore, and most of my friends are on gears so I have to keep up on the road, and yet be able to make it off-road as well. But I guess it would be more tedious to do a gear change with the ENO compared to my current setup. Hope I can get it next month or so. Thanks for the clarification! bloocow It just occured to me that I won't be able to swap freewheel sizes (for road and trail) the way I can with my Surly flip flop + singleator because there'll be no tensioner on the ENO. I dunno if I can handle going slow on road. I guess the traffic's just going to have to be more patient when I ride now. bloocow - still stuck in a dual-speeder's mindset |
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