All other things being equal, a cassette hub offers a far stronger axle, because the axle is supported in more places and closer to the frame dropouts. Bent or broken axles are essentially non-existent on even the cheapest cassette hubs. Among freewheel hubs, I know of few that are stronger than Phil. The number of people in the world that can bend or break the axle on a Phil FW hub is small.
All other things being equal a dishless wheel offers more equal spoke tension left vs right. That's one of the reasons 130 and 135 developed and why 145 and 160 are on tandems (and there are other reasons). Cassette hub --> less likely to break an axle Dishless wheel --> less likely to break a spoke On Feb 14, 5:57 pm, JoelMatthews <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can you (or someone else) explain why this is so? I thought the whole > > point of the cassette hub design was greater strength because the axle > > is supported by bearings further out to the right. So what makes this > > fw hub stronger even than the Phil fw hub? > > That is what I have heard as well. Obviously I have no problem with > FW hubs - I've never even owned a set of cassette hubs - but always > thought maybe I was giving up some strength to the people riding on > those new fangled thangs. > > On Feb 14, 5:59 pm, PATRICK MOORE <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Thomas Lynn Skean > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Generally, the 3-people-who-actually-know-these-things that I contacted > > > all implied or stated outright that a wheel built around a Phil Wood > > > IRD-style FW hub would be stronger than one built with a cassette hub, > > > all else equal. > > > Can you (or someone else) explain why this is so? I thought the whole > > point of the cassette hub design was greater strength because the axle > > is supported by bearings further out to the right. So what makes this > > fw hub stronger even than the Phil fw hub? I must admit that I am > > skeptical of this 3-person claim, but I am open to enlightenment. > > (Ommmmm ....) > > > As to Phil track hubs, I learned today that the bearings on my 2Xf > > fixed Phil are fine after almost 11K miles: the roughness was the > > not-fully-tightened spacer. > > > Patrick "no dish, no worries" Moore > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
