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I actually think the shimano hub spec is a win. In the last 5 years of working at a shop, we have been plagued by broken hub axles, failing freehub bodies and loose press-fit interfaces on pretty much all of the basic cartridge bearing hubs that come on bikes even up to $6000 Canadian. These unbranded/rebranded/low cost brands often don't have Canadian distributors, and when they do, they rarely have parts for those hubs. Warranty is also challenging with the lack of distribution and lack of replacement parts, often forcing our shop to eat the labour cost of relacing the wheel with a new hub, when we can even manage to get one on . The basic Shimano hubs may not have a perfect reliability record, but at least they have a distributor in Canada, who has a decent warranty system, and has most parts available for the last 7 years of hubs. Also, if home mechanics want to get into it, they just need some cone wrenches, rags, grease, time and cheap ball bearings to freshen up their hubs.

Thank you, it's certainly better now:) It's still a progressively more intoxicated interview with some typos, but it makes a lot more sense.

Very cool interview and lots of great topics. I got the gist of most of it, but some editing could help get some of the ideas across. I managed to read through most of the small errors, but some sentences didn't even make sense.