No doubt the WI track hubs are well worth considering. There are more discriminators between White and Phil than just preload adjustment. White probably lighter than Phil. White mounts with hex bolts on the axels, you’ll want a peanut butter wrench in your patch kit, and have to slide your rear hub out of the dropout lengthwise (some folks find that an issue with fenders). With Phil you can pack a generic long handle hex wrench and you have the option to pull the hex head axel stubs and just drop the rear wheel. The exquisite white freewheel (priced accordingly) should spin right on the freewheel side of either brands flip flop hub. The white rear hub will have their proprietary splined interface on the fixed side instead of the standard threads with lh lock ring. Though the Phil uses standard fixed threads they are cut a bit thick (?) and don’t work with some plated cogs (e.g. euro Asia). If you’ve no interest in fixed, Phil does fw only (either one sided or fw/fw flip flop). I don’t know if White offers those options. They aren’t listed on the web site, but neither are 135 old T11 rear hubs and I’ve got one of those on my AHH. So maybe you could special order em.
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