On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Bill Lindsay <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> People don't service them. The hub was designed for 50,000km with zero > service. Bike shops can't service them. You can send the hub back to > Germany for service. The hub needs to be removed from the wheel for > service (no spokes, no rim). > > Peter White's page tells that story, in his inimitably wordy style. > Here's a link to his page: http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/schmidt.asp > > I own three Schmidt hubs and have never had them serviced. I own two > Shutter Precision hubs and have never had them serviced. > Bill's right for most SON hubs re: unlacing. However, the intermediate years of SON20/28 (single color, big barrel) need to be laced into a wheel to disassemble. I know because I was going to send mine back for service due to a chirp that developed. It never got worse and comes and goes to this day, so I never actually did it, in part because of shipping both ways. Best, joe pdx or On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Bill Lindsay <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 4:53:19 PM UTC-8, Daniel Jackson wrote: >> >> How often do folks service SON28s? >> >> People don't service them. The hub was designed for 50,000km with zero > service. Bike shops can't service them. You can send the hub back to > Germany for service. The hub needs to be removed from the wheel for > service (no spokes, no rim). > > Peter White's page tells that story, in his inimitably wordy style. > Here's a link to his page: http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/schmidt.asp > > I own three Schmidt hubs and have never had them serviced. I own two > Shutter Precision hubs and have never had them serviced. > > Bill Lindsay > El Cerrito, 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
