Donald Gillies wrote:
>Opinions of these hubs ?? You don't see very many for sale in the
>aftermarket. They were a french campy-copy hubset,
Nope, they were not a Campy copy. _None_ of the
parts are interchangeable with Campagnolo or with
anything else (aside from the bearing balls.)
>common Peugeot
>PX-10 bikes and Raleighs. Are they reliable, or do rear axles break
>or the cones go bad easily? Do they polish up nicely, or is the
>aluminum of poor quality for polishing ??
They're OK quality, but the cones are (and have always been) unavailable, and they're not interchangeable with _anything_. Even when these hubs were current, you could never get cones for them.
Their bearing quality is nothing like old Campagnolo (but then there is nothing, including new Campagnolo, that's as nice in a cup-and-cone hub.)
Sheldon "Luxe Compétition" Brown
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