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was looking at these a while ago. Seemed good value for a fairly generic taiwanese milled hub, but the devil is in the detail as Ive learnt recently with some SSC ones. Serviceability? Bearing brands? Spare parts/pawls/springs etc?
cant say Im in love with the flanges though.
My friend has a pair as they were one of the few hubs we could find to suit his Mavic 819 rim which had not many holes (28 or 24 can't remember).
They look nicely made, they were a good weight, sealing seemed reasonable.
But......
Stoner is so very right. They devil is in the detail which is indeed the pawls which are constructed in a different way from the Hope ones I have. There are pawls and they are sprung by a ring around them. This gives quite a light spring which would be fine....
But.....
his hub has a defect in the lip seal, not typical or likely in another one I know but in his it means the ingress of dirt water and dust is more likely and this interferes with the light action to make the pawls stuck down leading to no drive 🙁
On the plus side when this happens the freewheel can be removed by hand!
But for him with a damaged lip seal the wheel is hopeless and only suitable for riding in a dust/water/mud free environment (which sounds boring). A new one may well be better but lack of spares availability means this one is heading for the bin unfortunatley.
So what I am saying is they are nearly good!
From what I remember dealing with Taiwan supplier was entertaining but trouble free.