Originally Posted by sstorkel

If you're racing your mountain bike across Outer Mongolia during the rainy season, you want to have Chris King hubs (and bottom bracket, and headset). If you're riding a road bike on pavement, they're ridiculous overkill. Or at least that's what my buddy who used to work for King tells me... he can't help but laugh every time he sees/hears King hubs on a road bike.