I share your appreciation for the now-extinct Shimano M770 XT hubs. They are light and tough and cheap and good, The LX group appears to be a European Trekking group, but it's available in the US as OEM (hubs and rder) on the Surly LHT, and a la carte through some offbeat distributors (i.e. not QBP). The current LX hubs are ok, but that last series of XT hubs were a completely different design that I liked much better.
On Friday, July 6, 2012 11:42:28 PM UTC-5, Mike wrote: > > So I was looking for some hubs tonight, checking Universal Cycles as a > start and they no longer have Shimano non-disc XT hubs. I checked the > Shimano website and it doesn't appear they're making them. It appears LX > hubs are still being made but they aren't listed on the Shimano website. > Deore hubs are still available although they appear to be made only in > black. That totally sucks. I've found XT hubs to be great and have them on > most of my bikes. > > Furthermore, Shimano appears to have streamlined their V-brakes. I guess > as soon as road bikes are being made with disc brakes it'll be hard to find > road calipers. > > It's not like this is the end of the world, there's plenty of options but > I've found the XT hubs to be a great value. I'll definitely be looking to > scoop up a set of LX hubs to put aside. > > --mike > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/rCavLDy0gR8J. 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.
