Just for the record: in many miles and years of using Phil ss/fixed hubs and bbs, many of each bought second or third or any other-hand -- the wheelset on the erstwhile Herse used 3-piece Phil fw hubs -- in admittedly dry conditions, I've never had any problem except twice with loosening bb lockrings that were fixed with re-tightening. This includes the current, old, steel-shelled -- how old, how many owners? -- bb on the Ram which was converted from 116 to 103 using a hammer; and the custom 145 bb on a fixed mtb that was ridden into 2 feet of water and never serviced -- it spun as new when I disassembled the bike a year or so later (the ti Phil bb on my commuter also got plenty of drenching rain and deep puddles).
I don't say that Phill bbs and hubs won't degrade quickly in regular wet weather use; don't know. But that is my experience (and my brother's, which is even more extensive than mine -- So Cal, mostly). Also, my last *new* Phil purchase (as opposed to much more recent purchases of even older and used bbs and hubs) was the 2003 Ti bb for the commuter; perhaps the new ones aren't up to the old ones. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
