Re: [CR]NOS Flip-Flop Track/Training Hub--Considerations

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot)

Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:55:22 -0500
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Jeff Slotkin" <jeffslotkin@home.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]NOS Flip-Flop Track/Training Hub--Considerations
In-Reply-To: <152.3f5a855.29232e3d@aol.com>


At 09:17 PM 11/13/2001 -0500, CYCLESTORE@aol.com wrote:
>Hi gang,
>
>It is my experience with fixed gear riding that the failure of threads on a
>fixed hub has little to do with the material of threads construction (see
>below: steel or aluminum). A hub of Suntour (Superbe at that) quality failed
>due to poor threading of the cog most likely. Cyclo brand cogs have done
>this many times in the past, always on good quality hubs, track and road.

I have cheap cogs in all sizes; not sure if they're Cyclo. The problem with mine is not poor quality threads, but not enough of them. Where a good machined cog has metal, these have air. Their is perhaps two-thirds as many threads as on a SuperbePro cog. This, combined with what looks like a thread's worth of empty space at the shoulder of the hub just didn't leave enough to get by. Sigh.
>I feel the material used in Cyclo brand or construction were poor. I have
>never seen a hub damaged by a Suntour, Shimano, Sub 11, Campagnolo, Euroasia
>or similar quality fixed cog. Cyclo may have had a bad batch, but I ended up
>with a lot of bad ones.
>
>Gilbert Anderson
>In Raleigh, NC USA
>
>
>
>At 10:11 AM 11/13/2001 -0800, cnighbor wrote:
> >NOS Flip-Flop Track/Training Hub L@@K! Item # 1032622206
> >
> ><http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
>Cool, maybe. I've been wanting a steel fixie hub so I can use my cheap cogs
>without pulling all the threads off, which is what happened to my Superbe
>Pro hub.
>
>Anybody know if the guts in this eBay one are of decently smooth quality?
>Thanks, JS