I am one of Jim's customers who has killed a Shimano Dynohub after two winters of riding. At the end mine would put still put out electricity, the wheel just barely moved. The replacement so far lasted through one winter. With the first hub, I often stored the bike inside so I don't know if theytemperature changes played a role. This winter I kept the bike in the garage. Only time will tell if that makes a difference.
Dan Abelson St. Paul, MN On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Larry Powers <lapower...@hotmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
