I have a mango hubset, where the shells weren’t from the same batch, that are very different colours as well and though they seem to have sorted it in the last few years, colour matching was a complaint with King hubs for a while.
My understanding is this was the result of moving anodizing in house and trying to use more sustainable practices but I couldn’t find anything to back that up in writing and it’s been many years since I was told that.
The purple headset on my bike is from the first time they offered it as a limited edition colour (it’s been in a few bikes) and the hubs are very different but I think in this case they weren’t meant to be the same finish - rather two different unique LTD runs of purple.
Feb. 7, 2022, 8:19 a.m. - Andrew Major
I have a mango hubset, where the shells weren’t from the same batch, that are very different colours as well and though they seem to have sorted it in the last few years, colour matching was a complaint with King hubs for a while. My understanding is this was the result of moving anodizing in house and trying to use more sustainable practices but I couldn’t find anything to back that up in writing and it’s been many years since I was told that. The purple headset on my bike is from the first time they offered it as a limited edition colour (it’s been in a few bikes) and the hubs are very different but I think in this case they weren’t meant to be the same finish - rather two different unique LTD runs of purple.