Jim,
Can you quantify this any better? I run a Son hub on my brevet bike and a Shimano n71 on my commuter. I put way more miles in all types of weather on my commuter and the Shimano hub is still going strong. I have ridden it through 3 New England winters. I bought it because it was cheaper and a failure on a commute is not as critical to me as a failure on a brevet. In your experience how many seasons of year round riding does the average Shimano n70/71/72 make it through before needing to be replaced? How many years for the SON before being replaced or needing a rebuild? Since I was considering having a new set of Brevet wheels built and was thinking about using a shimano hub this information will be quite helpful. Thanks. Larry Powers "just when you think that you've been gyped the bearded lady comes and does a double back flip" - John Hiatt > Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:05:55 -0700 > Subject: [RBW] Re: shimano alfine generator hubs > From: thill....@gmail.com > To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > > > The Alfine is one of the higher-end Shimano dynamo hubs. I have no > experience with it. But experience with other Shimano dynamos is that > they are functionally comparable to a SON in everything but > durability. Winter filth around here kills them, and they are not > serviceable. > Jim Thill > Minneapolis, MN > > On Apr 2, 10:09 am, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Has anyone come across one of these, yet: > > > > http://bike.shimano.com/publish/content/global_cycle/en/us/index/prod... > > > > b/c they look very very shiny and I'm curious how they stand up to the > > SON's. > > > > -sv > > _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail®: Now available on your iPhone or BlackBerry http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Mobile1_042009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
