RE: [CR]Phil Wood Hub Timeline?Quality?Axle breakage

(Example: Racing)

From: "Mark Bulgier" <mark@bulgier.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]Phil Wood Hub Timeline?Quality?Axle breakage
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:40:11 -0700


Another "me-too" - Like Tom and Stevan, I know I have bent and broken axles on frames with properly aligned dropouts. Not many, but it happens.

I'm not sure the axle has to bend before it breaks either - I think some may break in fatigue without any appreciable bending.

Mark Bulgier
Seattle, Wa
USA