Hub Sizes
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Hub Sizes
Now with the invention of super boost size Hubs have the manufacturers gone to far in continuously changing hub sizes?
If I have a good set of wheels I’d like to put them on my new mountain bike (and not have to buy another new set of hubs/wheels every time I buy a new bike.
or are people ok with the constant changes and cost involved with buying the latest and greatest ?
If I have a good set of wheels I’d like to put them on my new mountain bike (and not have to buy another new set of hubs/wheels every time I buy a new bike.
or are people ok with the constant changes and cost involved with buying the latest and greatest ?
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Yes they have gone too far.
if you buy a set of wheels that size, gotta buy a frame and fork that fits them, too.
if you buy a set of wheels that size, gotta buy a frame and fork that fits them, too.
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Boost definitely helped the 29er wheel get a bit stiffer, but now super boost? I agree that the lack of standardization really forces you to stick with your configuration choices if you are not willing or able to pay for the next thing, be it real or a gimmick.
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Now with the invention of super boost size Hubs have the manufacturers gone to far in continuously changing hub sizes?
If I have a good set of wheels I’d like to put them on my new mountain bike (and not have to buy another new set of hubs/wheels every time I buy a new bike.
or are people ok with the constant changes and cost involved with buying the latest and greatest ?
If I have a good set of wheels I’d like to put them on my new mountain bike (and not have to buy another new set of hubs/wheels every time I buy a new bike.
or are people ok with the constant changes and cost involved with buying the latest and greatest ?
There is no "they" and there is no "people" there are only individual manufacturers and individual customers.
Every part of a bicycle works with every other part. If you want the "latest and greatest" of anything, you are going to have to put up with some other changes that were necessary to make "latest and greatest" work. There is a body of customers who live for that.
If you want long lived component commonality, that's out there too. It just won't also be "latest and greatest". You get to decide which is more important to you as an individual.
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+1. I don't keep up with all the latest hub standards, but with the move to cartridge bearings and disc brakes, you should be able to buy one nice set of wheels for a particular bike, and it will be serviceable indefinitely.
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I'm with @Retro Grouch on this one. I usually buy components for the bike i have now, not for an as-yet unspecified bike I'll get some time in the future.
MTB's have gotten so specialized and mission-specific, that it'd be impossible to future-proof a wheelset for a frame you haven't decided you want yet.
Besides, short of a really heavy, high-speed crash, my frames tend to outlive their original wheelsets, so i'm more likely to have a frame with no wheels, than wheels with no frame.
MTB's have gotten so specialized and mission-specific, that it'd be impossible to future-proof a wheelset for a frame you haven't decided you want yet.
Besides, short of a really heavy, high-speed crash, my frames tend to outlive their original wheelsets, so i'm more likely to have a frame with no wheels, than wheels with no frame.
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Take this as a comment from an old guy with a biased opinion. I stepped away from the cycling industry for about thirty years and became a golf professional. If you think the "latest and greatest" idea is new, go look at golf. For the last twenty years I have seen companies promise and extra twenty yards of distance off the tee box with the newest club. So given those claims I should be able to hit the golf ball 400 yards with the newest driver. Heck, the best players in the world can't do that! So again the "marketing department" is in charge and new is only new for the sake of being so. I doubt that a Twenty-niner, will perform as well as a set of 18cm tires on a road bike, but it is something new to market to the public. Smiles, MH
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Take this as a comment from an old guy with a biased opinion. I stepped away from the cycling industry for about thirty years and became a golf professional. If you think the "latest and greatest" idea is new, go look at golf. For the last twenty years I have seen companies promise and extra twenty yards of distance off the tee box with the newest club. So given those claims I should be able to hit the golf ball 400 yards with the newest driver. Heck, the best players in the world can't do that! So again the "marketing department" is in charge and new is only new for the sake of being so. I doubt that a Twenty-niner, will perform as well as a set of 18cm tires on a road bike, but it is something new to market to the public. Smiles, MH