I've been conditioned by previous experience to do things right, once. Sometimes it's because I built something using less than the best materials because I didn't know about better choices or because it seemed like appropriate cost containment. The work and waste to undo something down to the point of a failure, necessity of replacement and a temporary substitute. This has applied in carpentry (pick each piece of lumber yourself), cabinet building (use the best fasteners and hardware), tiling (Ditra uncoupling mat), hardwood floors (have your own milled), old British (replace any Lucas part with others), Italian cars (Bayless Racing's timing belts), and bicycles- the source of so many trials and errors chronicled by these threads.
My first SON was for my commuter to which I am less committed than the hub. It is ridden in whatever comes and spends its time at home indoors so the proprietary atmospheric compensation to prevent moisture being sucked into the hub is key, I think. It has performed flawlessly with virtually no attention or care from me other than wiping it occasionally. I believe this environmental change of indoor storage and year-round use is what killed the previous Phil Wood BB in a significantly shorter time and mileage than should be expected. When picking parts for my new bike I had no hesitation about repeating the choice of the SON (with the SL feature since the frame and fork were custom). Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 12:06:29 AM UTC-4, Jonathan D. wrote: > > I was curious what folks experience are with the different dynamo hub > options. The Schmidt Sonn Dynamo hub seem to set the standard but at a > high cost. The other two I was looking at are Shutter Precision and the > Shimano Dynamo hubs. Anyone seen a good comparison? Should I be concerned > with reliability if I went with something cheaper than the Schmidt hub? > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a0cbdab8-08a5-41dd-b0a9-6de83727d255%40googlegroups.com.
