Rich just sold 4 Silver hubs with the steel freehub body on a first come first serve basis.
I am one of the lucky recipients :) Next time the wheel is rebuilt on my Road Standard (which happens every 2-3 years as I destroy rims with some regularity) it will be with a Silver hub! On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 6:44 PM Eric Daume <ericda...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some aluminum freehubs put a small steel strip on the load bearing part of > the gear mating profile. Seems like a good idea. > > Eric > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 10:50 AM 'Montgomery Engel' via RBW Owners Bunch < > rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> I think that’s probably right. I contacted Rivendell and they do not have >> and did not know of any cromo replacements. I think there are more alloy >> freehub bodies out there that are compatible, but I think I’m just going to >> ride this freehub into the ground, i.e., until I can’t get the cassettes >> off or I have to rebuild the wheel and then decide whether to chance it >> with another alloy body or get another hub. I sort of doubt KT is going to >> be making a cromo replacement. >> It seems to me this is an engineering error. The softer alloy splines are >> the same depth as the harder cromo splines in the Shimamo compatible >> bodies. It strikes me that they should have increased their depth to >> compensate for the weaker metal. Instead, no surprise, it seems like their >> answer was to use pricier, interlocking cassettes that are probably less >> likely to cut the splines, but I’d so much rather have a bulletproof but >> heavier freehub body and keep using reasonably priced cassettes that I >> think probably wear at similar rates to the cheap ones! >> Thanks for the thoughts on this. >> >> On Aug 15, 2018, at 6:18 PM, Bill Lindsay <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I looked at that Ben's Cycle listing for a SRAM freehub. I'd bet a >> dollar that IF it's really gold in color, like that picture, that it is not >> in fact steel. I don't know of a way to make steel be that color. That's >> a picture of an aluminum freehub body. If the item you are actually buying >> looks alot different from the photo, then maybe it's steel. They might be >> referring to the drivering itself, with the ratchet splines, which most >> certainly is steel. >> >> BL in EC >> >> On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 12:40:55 PM UTC-7, Jeremy Till wrote: >>> >>> I've been researching the possibility of getting a cromo freehub body >>> for Silver hubs and haven't actually come up with a solution but do have a >>> couple of leads: >>> >>> 1. After some sleuthing I have come to believe that the Silver hubs were >>> manufactured by KT, a Taiwanese company that manufacturers hubs for a >>> number of other brands, and whose website used to show a cromoly >>> replacement freehub with the same mechanism as the Silver ones. I emailed >>> them about the possibility of getting one in the U.S. and was directed to >>> HiFi wheels, a boutique wheel builder in Portland whom I assume is a North >>> American agent for KT. They don't list the freehub bodies on their >>> website, and they never responded to my email inquiry. You may have better >>> luck--let us know if you do! >>> >>> http://ridehifi.com/ >>> >>> 2. I have recently discovered that the SRAM S40/60/80 wheels seem to >>> have used a KT hub with the same freehub mechanism, and that there is a >>> replacement freehub body out there that looks like the Silver one and is >>> listed as being steel: >>> >>> >>> https://www.benscycle.com/sram-s406080-910-speed-freehub-body-and-seal/freehub_body_sram_freehub_bodies_8116_fw4553/product >>> >>> (It's listed in the QBP catalog and thus is available from a number of >>> vendors, this is just the first one that showed the material). Buying this >>> was going to be my next attempt (haven't do so yet), but I will say that I >>> have no idea if it is actually going to work on a Silver hub and if it is >>> indeed steel. If you buy one, let us know how it works out! >>> >>> On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 10:59:12 AM UTC-7, Montgomery Engel >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, does anyone know the answer to Jim's question, below, re: replacing >>>> the alloy freehub body with a cro-mo one on Silver hubs? I removed >>>> my cassette last night with great difficulty to discover rather large >>>> grooves in the splines cut by the cassette. Grateful for any advice. >>>> >>>> On Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 4:21:09 PM UTC-4, Jim Bronson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Question is, can a steel replacement be obtained? A prior post >>>>> pointed out a 6 pawl cro-mo freehub from the same manufacturer, is it a >>>>> direct fit? >>>>> >>>>> http://o-lite.com.tw/news.php?m=d&id=16&p=1 >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Bill Lindsay <tape...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> The prevailing worry is your cassette cogs will dig into the splines >>>>>> and make it difficult to remove your cassette down the line. It's a >>>>>> pretty >>>>>> common thing for riders like us to just say "enough, I'm never buying an >>>>>> alloy cassette body again". It's one of the reasons many of us think >>>>>> Deore >>>>>> XT from the late 90's early 00's were so great. So many of them that >>>>>> they >>>>>> are really cheap. Still made in Japan so they were good quality. Steel >>>>>> axles and steel driveshells so your gears come off easy, no matter what >>>>>> you >>>>>> do. The only acceptable lightweight alternative for many is Ti (white >>>>>> industries, Dura Ace). >>>>>> >>>>>> If Rich says they are nice then I trust they are nice, but many in >>>>>> this group will hear alloy drive shell and will steer clear. It's a >>>>>> fact. >>>>>> I'd probably give them a shot, but if Riv had asked me to spec their >>>>>> Silver >>>>>> rear hub, I would have advised a steel driveshell for this reason. One >>>>>> less thing to have to talk about. The gram savings mean nothing in the >>>>>> context of a Rivendell. Maybe this particular alloy driveshell is "just >>>>>> as >>>>>> rugged", or close enough, but maybe it's not. Steel would not have been >>>>>> less rugged, and would have been heavier. The handwringers will wring >>>>>> hands more over alloy than they would have over the heavier weight. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 12:38:47 PM UTC-7, Ginz wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So, does anyone think they can wear out the alloy freehub body? :) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! >>>>> >>>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/IIccgUdKmtc/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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. >> > -- > 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. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ signature goes here -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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