Originally Posted by
Marcus_Ti
The thing with my symptoms...they only appeared after a bit over 5,000 miles. Which most review time frames are barely a 1/10th of that. For a set of beater wheels that'll get put through the ringer--they're okay.
Mine (for google search keywords: This was the Bitex RAR12 hub) was REALLY bad out of the box. I ended up removing half the pawls and tightening the end caps hard and that significantly helped the issue. But it still happens once in a while. But I agree - considering that they're not exactly slow, heavy or unreliable, and how cheap they are, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them to someone looking for something that just works.
On the topic of the thread - I haven't thoroughly perused this thread yet, but Hambini recently posted a test for the WR56C02 - 56mm deep, 30mm wide, 460-490g per rim. It does extraordinarily well, considering the price and the presumable lack of R&D that went into them. It was tested with a 23mm GP4000 sii, which is probably not the tire we'd use, but a 25mm tire would probably make the WR56C02 rank even higher.
Also I can't figure out whether they're called the WR56C02 or the RR56C02...