Then there's the hub on my Raleigh Superbe, stamped "74" and apparently going strong almost 40 years after it was made:
http://tinyurl.com/76huecq --Eric N Sent from my iPad2 On Dec 6, 2011, at 7:09 PM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> wrote: > It is a common occurrence on the IGH hubs that see heavy use in foul weather, > Rohloff excepted. We have to replace several Shimano and SRAM IGHs every > year, which is always a huge let-down to their owners, who believed the hype > on the Internet that these things go forever with no maintenance. If the > manufacturers made the small parts available for repair, I would take them > more seriously. One tech at SRAM told me that one of their $200+ hubs was > intended for "cruisers and low-torque applications", not for serious everyday > use. > > -- > 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/-/5uLd7M5F9hYJ. > 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.
