What colour should hubs be?

Do you always pedal downhill? 😆 arrgghhh, can’t get away from this bee!

I used to be black with black spokes.

But if I have the luxury of buying wheels again I will give this some serious thought.

Whichever colour you choose invariably some short ammount of time later you’ll flirt with the idea that a different colour may have been nicer/ worked better . .

I think my Tripster’s road wheels look lovely. Black carbon weave front hub and silver rear. Certainly nicer than the dark brown of the Allroads!

So one of each is the answer 😀

Black and silver are the only permissible colours for any parts that aren’t the frame or forks. And you really have to put some serious thought into the colour of forks if you don’t want black.

Hubs look better in black on modern mountain bikes, same for spokes.

Hubs should be the same colour as the headset and seatpost clamp.

Depends:

I have black *6, pink *5, red *2, mango *2 and silver*5.  They all look great on the right bike.

Sorry chaps it’s silver or nothing.

Otherwise you are adding a colour that is not necessary and it is then just fashion.

Hubs should be the same colour as the headset and seatpost clamp.

Top bearing is black, bottom bearing is orange, seat clamp us knackered and scratched, but used to be black…

So, silver then? 😊

Black bike components are ugly and smell of penny pinching, depression and teenage goth’s bedrooms.

Metal is supposed to be shiney and to reflect the light.

Rusty has it. Are you all riding to a funeral?

Ooh, Ta11pau1, that Ti Orange is soooo beautiful! They’ve got one (number one, actually) in JE James in Sheffield. It nearly made me cry, as I’ll be very unlikely to ever afford one!

OP, sounds like orange would work for your build, but if you change frames regularly you may want to be sensible and go black. Plenty of other ways to add colour.

Oh like youd love the e4s on my Ibis.

Orange cause they were cheaper

gold FTB

Silver.  Bike wheels should be silver because they are lighter and faster.

I may have a skewed view of these things though, as I view black shoes as heavy and slow and are therefore banned (bike or non-bike).

Anything but silver, they just look crap. Like they’re off a such a cheap supermarket BSO that they couldn’t even be bothered to anodise the hubs.

Surprised so many people aren’t liking polished hubs. In an ideal world my Chris Kings would be the polished silver, but since I can’t afford new ones I’ve got the weird Pewter, slightly purple colour instead.

I really like the grey/blue colour of my Goldtecs on my fixie.

problem with coloured hubs is that they never quite match the colours on the frame / fork so it looks like you tried and failed

I tend to go for black on an MTB because all the other stuff (rims, groupset, finishing kit) are usually black and the silver doesn’t work with the lairy colours on the frame

On my new-ish transition scout I went for silver hubs and changed the rim graphics to silver too, really happy with the way it came out.

Not the best picture because it’s covered in mud.

Silver hubs with silver spokes on black rims with white stickers and white forks is a good look *cough*

Me old Metropolis had highlighter yellow hubs

wohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Clear or GTFO.