For me the big risk is that nobody makes a good freewheel. For good freewheels, you are stuck trolling the NOS market, for the most part, or accepting the Shimanopore quality level.
The secondary risk is that when freewheel hubs first stretched to 130mm people had more problems with axles bending and breaking. Paul probably has addressed that with his beefy aluminum axle, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. This is just an assumption, but to my eye the left flange seems WAAAAY far to the left. The math of spoke tension guarantees that those spokes will be really loose. I'd be a little worried about those really loose spokes wanting to loosen themselves up. I would want to talk with a trusted wheelbuilder that has used that hub before I did anything with it. My first contact would be Mike Varley, who likes Paul a lot and is a trusted wheelbuilder to me. If he told me it's fine, I trust it would be fine. On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 10:38:08 AM UTC-8, drew beckmeyer wrote: > > yeah, this is really interesting. i dont need a wheel built or anything, > but this hub seems like something nice to have around in case. i dont know > anything about this sort of adjustable axle. can anyone testify to > potential downsides of this design? > > On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 4:23:26 AM UTC-8, Tony DeFilippo wrote: >> >> I know Paul Components is thought of well around here, I love the brakes >> and levers I have for sure. One of their niche hubs just went on sale, the >> Jono... anyone have any experience w/ them? It's got an incredibly >> adjustable axle allowing you to build it up as anywhere from 120-135mm OLD >> and use a multi-speed freewheel. I happen to have a '70s ish era frame w/ >> narrow spacing around that is right now limited to single speed/fixie use >> b/c I don't have a narrower multispeed hub so it's pretty compelling at >> $105 new from Paul. I'd been stalking a couple vintage used hubsets on the >> auction site but hadn't pulled the trigger. I figure I can't go wrong w/ a >> Paul hub but I figured I'd check in with the group! >> >> http://www.paulcomp.com/jonohub.html >> > -- 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.
