Yeah, I seem to end up with a surplus of front hubs from swap-outs (to replace with a dynamo)... One day I'm going to assemble some kind of Franken-creation utilizing these unwanted front hubs...
I also have old Uniglide cassette bodies that I wonder if they will every have some use in the future... NAH.... On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 6:28:14 PM UTC-5, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > True. Especially considering that perfectly good "normal" front hubs are > practically free on the second hand market. > > On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 2:55:16 PM UTC-8, Steve Palincsar wrote: >> >> On 01/07/2014 05:51 PM, Bill Lindsay wrote: >> > It gets a lot more costly to run multiple wheelsets when dynamo hubs >> > come into play. When there's a $300 hub in the equation, it's more >> > motivation to just do the tire swap when you need to. Maybe that >> > motivates some to make sure that the dynamo wheel can interchangeably >> > run on different bikes, but that's different from running multiple >> > wheels on one bike >> >> One popular use for multiple wheels would be to not use the generator >> hub on a given bike when no nighttime operation was contemplated, but >> rather to swap in a plain old wheel. This would reduce mileage on the >> generator hub, sparing the more expensive (and not user serviceable) >> wheel. >> >> >> -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
