For that price I'd live with it. Before I'd spend money on the Phil I'd drop an extra $50 and start over with a White Industries hub, save a bunch of weight, and have a hub that doesn't have excessive drag while coasting.
I have a Phil cassette hub that is many years old and well broken-in. If I give the rear wheel a spin with the bike in the repair stand, the drag in the hub drives the cranks around rather than letting the cassette freewheel. Coasting on the road at speed it tries to drive the chain forward, causing the chain to go slack on the top run. This has not changed since the hub was new. The mechanic at the local shop has seen this before and regards it as a flaw in Phil's design. The WI I have on another bike does not do this, nor do any other hubs I have owned. Bill On Thursday, December 11, 2014 7:49:35 PM UTC-8, David wrote: > > Evening, group. Anyone here (1) run a Phil cassette hub on their Riv, and > (2) come to find the cassette does not release or install onto the hub body > without significant force/wrangling/finagling involved? It's really > bizarre. I have a Phil cassette hub on my Hilsen and I have this issue. > Called Phil today. I'm told that I have an older generation cassette hub > that has 4 pawls instead of the new 5 pawl hub body. So, Phil wants $266 > from me (plus shipping both ways) to install the current gen cassette hub > and ratchet ring. No warranty on Phil parts, apparently. Riv installed > the cassette hub on my Hilsen in 2010, and I'd very much assume the guys > who built my Hilsen up would've noticed a fussy fit between the cassette > and the hub body. But how did this happen? > > Does this scenario speak to anyone here? If so, do you know of another > workaround, as an alternative to dealing with Phil. > > Thanks for your time, > > David > Sacramento, CA > -- 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.
