On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 7:58:42 PM UTC-7, benzzoy wrote: > > On Mar 21, 8:08 am, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Make sure you get the cassette lockring if you find a hub. They are > > hub-specific and not cheap. > > Not necessarily. The older 9/10/11-speed Campagnolo hubs use the > smaller 26x1 lockrings that are somewhat hard to find and fairly > expensive, so with that you're correct. These hubs can typically be > identified by their old-style steel or titanium threaded axles. > > However, more recent (post-1999) hubs all use the 27x1 lockrings; > these are cheap'n'plentiful and in fact come with new cassettes. > Campagnolo started with including them with cassettes, then stopping > that practice, and now has resumed that practice again. Hurray for us!
Agree, if you can find them, the 1999 thru 2006 Record/Chorus/Centaur hubs are some of the best ever made! These 3 hubs have basically the same innards (cones, races, bearings) and are among the lightest hubs every made. After around 2006, Campy discontinued the Chorus and moved the Centaur hub to be more in line with the lower Veloce/Mirage line. Too bad, For alternatives, look at White hubs. If you want cheaper, check out the Ambrosio Zenith: http://www.totalcycling.com/road-components/hubs/hubs_road/HB_ZENITH_S_R_CAMPAGNOLO.html This is basically the same hub that Jan H sells under the Grand Bois name. Jan raved about the GB hub, so this should work out well. As for lockrings, yes it comes with the cassette. If you want a cheaper alternative to Campy, check out the miche campy compatible cassette, it also comes with a matching lockring. Good Luck! -- 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/-/bWAngkekkUMJ. 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.
