Thomas, I'll tell you soon how this works out, i have a Phil Wheel IRD FW hub and i'm about to replace it with a sunrace one, at least until i can figure out if my IRD is trust-worthy or not.
>From my research before, i couldn't find any deal-breaker differences between the IRD specific free-wheel phil hub and the regular one. On Jun 8, 1:38 pm, Thomas Lynn Skean <thomaslynnsk...@comcast.net> wrote: > I will soon be faced, though, with getting a new rear wheel for a new > bike. I haven't really decided whether I'm going to go with the IRD- > specific Phil freewheel hub or whether I'll go with the (what I > presume to be) "standard" Phil freewheel hub. If I understand > correctly, the spacing on the latter would probably allow the > Shimanopore freewheel to fit my frame without finagling, at the cost > of increasing the dish somewhat. I haven't investigated how much it > increases it. (If anybody knows, I'd love to know too!) If it > increases it to near cassette levels... well, then I'd probably say > goodbye to freewheels entirely. My *main* reason for using them in the > first place was that the near-dishless nature made the wheel more > robust than a cassette wheel (now... discuss! :)). Distantly > secondarily, the front-wheel-ish simplicity of the rear wheel per se > appeals to me also; a freehub seems inelegantly relatively > complicated. (Again... discuss! :)) (I gave no thought to bikes until > cassettes were already the norm; the appeal may not make sense. But it > isn't born of retro-grouchy nostalgia.) > -- 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.
