On Jun 8, 4:55 pm, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote: > > This situation has more layers of irony than a Dobos > Torte.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobos_torte > > Perhaps the greatest of all is that so many people believed that the > path to greater wheel reliability was via Phil hubs and freewheels for > reduced dish, and gave up freehubs (which have demonstrated astonishing > reliability at all price points) and cassettes (which, although not as > easily customized as in the Good Old Days of the Cog Board, at least > come in a wide variety of gearings and can still be customized to some > extent). I think we all know who has to answer for that.
I think it's true that pretty much any normal 36-spoke Shimano freehub, with whatever dish it brings to the party, is as strong as most people need. With a >250lb rider I question it. With a regular >300lb payload I'd recommend something more durable, simply based on my own experience. And while there are probably cassette solutions that are also durable enough (high spoke counts? super-thick spokes? widely-spaced dropouts? smaller cassettes? super-sized super-low pressure tires?), none appealed to me as much as the Phil freewheel solution. As one who ruined several normal Shimano freehub wheels in short order, despite having had knowledgeable people predict no problems with each new wheel, I'm happy to have a Phil/freewheel solution which has actually succeeded in giving me thousands of trouble-free miles so far, with every suggestion that I'll wear out the rim before anything else bad happens. Finally. The fact that IRD produced some (lots of?) bad freewheels has definitely complicated things. But thank goodness for Phil freewheel hubs. Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean -- 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.
