I imagine the reason King and some of the other small volume high quality hub makers such as Paul run into is the price. For most people buying Riv type bikes White or Phil Wood provide as much functionality for the money that they need.
I mentioned my Maxi-Car hubs aboce. My understanding is Maxi-Car still makes specialized hubs for wheel chairs, hospital carts and material movement equipment. They stopped making bicycle hubs as they came to the realization that to make an acceptable profit their technology needed to sell at a price above what any acceptable portion of the market is willing to pay. If I did not already have the Maxi-Car hubs I would have seriously considered Kings for my BG bike. On Sep 23, 12:42 pm, 40_Acres <mgla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Or Chris King. Everyone loves King headsets, but their hubs (which > are excellent) don't get much love on this forum. > > On Sep 23, 5:41 am, Bruce <fullylug...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > Or White Industries? > > > ________________________________ > > From: Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> > > To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 6:49:35 AM > > Subject: [RBW] Re: Rear Wheel spacing > > > . and > > > > there simply isn't as many choices for non disc mtb hubs these > > > days..... at least ones that I'd want to buy. > > > Does that mean you don't want to buy any of the Shimano MTB hubs or the > > Phil?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
