Show me your high flange hubs
09-19-16, 10:48 AM
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Show me your high flange hubs
High flange hubs are my favourite part of a bike. Show me what you got.
Not the most artistic shot but these are, imo, the quintessential high flange hub.
Not the most artistic shot but these are, imo, the quintessential high flange hub.
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09-19-16, 10:54 AM
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High flange hubs on a working man's budget.... A pair of Suntour hubs that I cut out of a pair of gaspipe Miyata 27" wheels. I'm currently building a pair of 650b wheels around these.
09-19-16, 11:41 AM
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Got these for a wheel build that hasn't happened.
09-19-16, 12:42 PM
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I have the usual suspects in 28, 32, 36 and 40 spoke config (did have apair of 24 but sold them some years ago to a lighter guy than me). I have at least 15 pairs of Record high flange hubs - from the early "no Record" 60ies and then up. I do love high flange hubs...
And the coveted C-Record high flange hubs:
And the coveted C-Record high flange hubs:
09-19-16, 12:49 PM
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09-19-16, 12:52 PM
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Here are my C-Records:
I bought them years ago. Still haven't had the heart to build them up. The guy I bought them from had 10 sets, I should have bought them all.
I bought them years ago. Still haven't had the heart to build them up. The guy I bought them from had 10 sets, I should have bought them all.
09-19-16, 01:15 PM
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves the "bling" of high flange hubs.
I'm looking to get a high flange Phil Wood front wheel.
I'm looking to get a high flange Phil Wood front wheel.
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09-19-16, 01:22 PM
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I see no Campy Tipos. One of my favorite hubs for the simple reason - they work. I have two Tipo front hubs that have been the hubs of my city/rain/winter bikes for decades.
My Campy experience with high flange has been very mixed. I picked up a track hub to run as my city/winter/rain fix gear hub, only to have the flange break in a few years. Campy came through on the replacement but still, that's another wheel build for a failure that shouldn't happen. Same thing happened to the replacement. The Tipos, by contrast, have been completely trouble free. I see scoring on the races, but after rebuilding with marine hub grease, they pass the feel test.
The hub that failed did see real Ann Arbor/salt winters and time spent ridden with very uneven spoke tensions and it was designed and built as a track hub where non of that ever happens. Still, I weigh 155 pounds (pure hill climber) and am not a wheel killer. I expected more from a hub designed to handle Nelson Vails' sprint.
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My Campy experience with high flange has been very mixed. I picked up a track hub to run as my city/winter/rain fix gear hub, only to have the flange break in a few years. Campy came through on the replacement but still, that's another wheel build for a failure that shouldn't happen. Same thing happened to the replacement. The Tipos, by contrast, have been completely trouble free. I see scoring on the races, but after rebuilding with marine hub grease, they pass the feel test.
The hub that failed did see real Ann Arbor/salt winters and time spent ridden with very uneven spoke tensions and it was designed and built as a track hub where non of that ever happens. Still, I weigh 155 pounds (pure hill climber) and am not a wheel killer. I expected more from a hub designed to handle Nelson Vails' sprint.
Ben
09-19-16, 01:46 PM
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No shortage of vintage high flange beauties in this forum thread:
https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...os-needed.html
https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...os-needed.html
09-19-16, 01:53 PM
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09-19-16, 01:54 PM
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Doc Morten hand made tandem track hubs (30's/40's) 40 front, 36 rear
Likes For clubman:
09-19-16, 02:30 PM
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I also like HF and wish I could obtain some obscure older ones.
Record track
C Rec track
Tipo
Record
DA black waiting to finish the DA black (lookin a little purple) build on the MKM.
Schwinn Paramount
Record track
C Rec track
Tipo
Record
DA black waiting to finish the DA black (lookin a little purple) build on the MKM.
Schwinn Paramount
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09-19-16, 02:44 PM
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Hubba, hubba. Lot of cool hubs. @clubman, those Doc Morten hubs are neat, and @Big Block so are those Cyclo hubs!
A few of mine:
Tipo's on my Cilo:
Weight weenie Hi-E hi-lows:
Record hubs with some more window dressing:
And some French Normany Luxe Competition hubs (one pair on my UE-8 with upgraded wheels, and another pair I got on the cheap since the previous owner cut them out of a wheelset before removing the FW):
Gnutti 3-piece hub:
Sunshine Pro:
Normandy Sport front hub:
A few of mine:
Tipo's on my Cilo:
Weight weenie Hi-E hi-lows:
Record hubs with some more window dressing:
And some French Normany Luxe Competition hubs (one pair on my UE-8 with upgraded wheels, and another pair I got on the cheap since the previous owner cut them out of a wheelset before removing the FW):
Gnutti 3-piece hub:
Sunshine Pro:
Normandy Sport front hub:
09-19-16, 02:47 PM
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Mine is the Hi Lo Campag 36 hole*, a R'off.. & S-A Drum Brakes on another bike.
* not mine but a Picture
https://www.velovilles.com/en/parts/h...-36-holes.html
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* not mine but a Picture
https://www.velovilles.com/en/parts/h...-36-holes.html
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^Ah, okay. I went with what I saw on the wingnut. Thanks for the info/correction.
09-19-16, 03:30 PM
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Got these a while ago. Just because they're pretty. Two NOS front hubs, made by the Compagnie Génerale du Duralmin et du Cuivre (CEGEDUR) in Paris:
09-19-16, 03:37 PM
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For some nice hub eye-candy, the hub album on the Speedplay Vintage Bicycle Component Museum is worth checking out. Actually, the whole site is highly recommended. Their descriptions are really informative, too:
Speedplay Vintage Bicycle Component Museum - Vintage Hub Album
Speedplay Vintage Bicycle Component Museum - Vintage Hub Album
09-19-16, 03:59 PM
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more at https://www.flickr.com/photos/229836...7645283084540/
09-19-16, 04:08 PM
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Blumfield hubs were made from Duralite (ie an aluminium alloy)
more at https://www.flickr.com/photos/229836...7645283084540/
more at https://www.flickr.com/photos/229836...7645283084540/