Even when I did think about grams when building single speeds (where weight is apparently an even bigger deal if you follow the prevail dogma) there were some places like rear hubs where effectiveness - and for my budget long term effectiveness - gets top billing. My six-bolt Chris King hubs aren’t light by any metric but they’re resilient AF.
Actually, it really eats me that they’ve abandoned six-bolt for Centre Lock and introduced a wear interface to the system, where I really found them faultless before.
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Anyways, my ranting aside, I’d love to see real unladen and also equipped-to-rip weights for EWS rigs.
July 5, 2021, 2:32 p.m. - Andrew Major
Even when I did think about grams when building single speeds (where weight is apparently an even bigger deal if you follow the prevail dogma) there were some places like rear hubs where effectiveness - and for my budget long term effectiveness - gets top billing. My six-bolt Chris King hubs aren’t light by any metric but they’re resilient AF. Actually, it really eats me that they’ve abandoned six-bolt for Centre Lock and introduced a wear interface to the system, where I really found them faultless before. - Anyways, my ranting aside, I’d love to see real unladen and also equipped-to-rip weights for EWS rigs.