Thanks, Nick, for the reminder and suggestions. I have read up some previously about the pawl issue. As I have a handful of bikes and wheelsets with the Phil cassette hubs, it's likely that I'll have the problem flare up sooner or later. But fortunately, knock on (Phil) Wood, I haven't had to deal with it yet. Luckily, all are "sunny Sunday afternoon on the bikepath" bikes that get ridden 200 miles or less most seasons, so I'm hoping the hubs will eventually outlive me.
I will admit to having an expensive and maybe impractical Ph-etish, but I do thoroughly enjoy the aesthetics of how those Phil wheelsets look on bikes that I expect to keep for ten or twenty years or more. Willet M. On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 1:13:01 AM UTC-7 Nick Payne wrote: > You'd be buying obsolescence. I have one of these hubs, with about a dozen > years of use on it, and when I tried to get some replacement pawls for it > from Phil recently, as the pawls are starting to lose engagement every so > often and jump, the response was that they don't have the pawls for those > old hubs any longer (they changed the pawl design a few years ago), and the > only option was to send it back to them for an upgrade to 11-speed freehub, > at a cost, not including shipping, of $US250. As I can buy > > I'd be looking for something like a White Industries MI5 instead. > > Nick Payne > -- 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/f4f21a5b-44e0-4a40-b152-765caf97e55en%40googlegroups.com.
