The answer to the angry bee sound of a King hub is to keep pedaling. Coasting is for sissies!
Joe Joe Bartoe Synaptic Cycles Bicycle Rentals, Inc. email: j...@synapticcycles.com website: www.synapticcycles.com Twitter: @synapticcycles phone: 949-374-6079 > Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:05:42 -0700 > Subject: [RBW] Re: Fancy Hub Conundrum: Chris King vs. White Industries vs. > Hope > From: clotht...@gmail.com > To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > > Agreed. Bought a King cassette hub for the Bleriot thinking I'd do my > part for the local economy/support the Home Team, etc... never again. > Love Chris' headsets, but The Angry Bee is not for me. Thousands of > miles on it, still louder than a Tea Party get-together at a Metallica > concert. > > On an average night, my wife & daughter can hear me coming home from a > ride: 4 houses away, while they're inside. > > No Ninja riding with a King rear hub. > > I'm either going back to Phil or White after this hub dies--or I shoot > it. > > -Scott > > On Nov 3, 1:04 pm, Allan in Portland <allan_f...@aracnet.com> wrote: > > FWIW, you couldn't give me a Chris King. The hubs are all over Portland. > > Too loud, too NASCAR. The WI, which came to me through purchase of a used > > bike, I find pleasant in both looks and sound. It is also incredibly > > smooth. It spins down a stop like no other wheel I've owned. > > > > Regards, > > -Allan > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
