I own the PW touring hub, had it for 3 years now. On the way down the coast on my tour last summer I stopped by PW and had them upgrade the hub to the latest 11 speed cassette body and change all the bearings, not that I needed it, I was just in the area. Since then I've put 10,000km on it without any issues. The latest design of the cassette body allows for user pawl replacement, and they include an extra set of pawls when you buy your hub. They said that they made the pawl steel softer than the ratchet ring steel so that it is an easy wear item to replace. You do need to check the hubs once a month or two depending on how much you ride, make sure everything is lubed and tight. There is still a fair bit of internal resistance when freewheeling, even after 10,000km, but since it's on my touring bike I don't worry about it. I certainly would not put it on a "go fast" bike though. The hubs are really heavy.
The only issues I've heard with the White are that the bearings are so-so and need replacement sooner than later. One could have the best of both worlds by replacing the bearings in the WI hub with PW spec bearings. I do like the idea they make the pawls out of S2 steel, I haven't heard any complaints about the ratchet mech in the WI hubs, so that's a good thing. Nathan Spratt Vancouver, BC On Wednesday, 14 June 2017 08:38:28 UTC-7, Birdman wrote: > > So it turns out that while I wait for my Atlantis frame, I get to have > lots of fun drafting up my dream build before the cold, hard reality sets > in 3-4 months from now. > > Lately I've been thinking about a wheel set. I'm a big guy at 250lbs and > will be riding on pavement, gravel, and dirt roads on short tours with > front and rear racks, basket, panniers, etc. The latest plan is to run 50mm > Marathon Duremes. > > I have a 36h wide body SON hub for the front and Rich has recommended > Atlas rims. As for the rear cassette hub, which would you recommend if > money were no object (it is, but this a dream build): > > White Industries MI5 > > or > > Phil Wood Touring? > > Isaac > > -- 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.
