The talk about LX hubs is to make sure there is enough grease and readjust the bearings, both of which can be done at the same time! Often they come a little dry and a little tight. This adjustment will make hub life approach infinity, assuming adjustments repeated as needed of course.
On Jul 31, 3:53 pm, cm <chrispmur...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Just received new Shimano Deore LX hubs for my Bleriot. Going to build > the up with DT and Dyads. It has been a while since I have had any LX > components and am literally shocked by their appearance. They look 10x > better than the last LX hubs I had in 1999 and far better than the XT > hubs I bought in '04. The finish is sort of a brushed silver. I think > the old ones are painted gray, and the XTs are black. I will hold off > on final judgement until they have a few miles on them. > > It is easy to forget how great Shimano's middle of the road stuff > really is- as I tend to pine over more topshelf stuff. > > This is final component for the Bleriot before I start putting it > together. Couldn't be more excited. > > Cheers! > cm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
