[RBW] Newbie here: Are Phil Wood hubs worth it.

2010-07-17 Thread Powderpiggy
I plan to purchase a Betty FoyI have been oggling the Betty Foy's online since as long as they have been around, and the Glorius before her. This would be my first Riv (and probably only as I don't have huge expendable income). This is a major purchase form me so I am thinking it would be

Re: [RBW] Newbie here: Are Phil Wood hubs worth it.

2010-07-17 Thread PATRICK MOORE
First, I'd get a cassette hub instead of a fw hub; much easier to find replacement clusters. Perhaps others know something I don't and fws are easier to find that I know, but one certainly sees more ads for cassettes than for fws. As to PW quality: My 1999 custom Joe Starck road fixied turned