"Perfectly good OEM hubs" is quite subjective, and replacing them is often less about just getting more POE and more about getting an better quality hub, and then while you're at it getting something with more engagement, because of those "reasons".
Reasons (without the passive-aggressive quotes that imply they're not real) which are actual objective things that riders can, and do, notice and feel. You're trying to say that low-engagement hubs are good for one or two very specific situations, and specific suspension designs. I'm trying to say that high-engagement hubs are good for a few other, more general, reasons, regardless of suspension design. And maybe most importantly because they _add consistency to all situations_, even the situations they're supposed to bad at.
March 24, 2023, 10:53 a.m. - Justin White
"Perfectly good OEM hubs" is quite subjective, and replacing them is often less about just getting more POE and more about getting an better quality hub, and then while you're at it getting something with more engagement, because of those "reasons". Reasons (without the passive-aggressive quotes that imply they're not real) which are actual objective things that riders can, and do, notice and feel. You're trying to say that low-engagement hubs are good for one or two very specific situations, and specific suspension designs. I'm trying to say that high-engagement hubs are good for a few other, more general, reasons, regardless of suspension design. And maybe most importantly because they _add consistency to all situations_, even the situations they're supposed to bad at.