Shimano Tri Color Rear Hub ?
03-19-15, 10:55 AM
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Shimano Tri Color Rear Hub ?
I have been looking high and low for a rear 7 speed HG rear in NOS or almost new. Found a VGC SET on the bay, my question is 140.00 inc ship a crazy price for this hub (since I have a NOS front, I am looking at this as the cost for the rear)?
I need it to finish a complete Tri Color build.
I need it to finish a complete Tri Color build.
03-19-15, 11:14 AM
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Seems steep to me. I bought a complete 8 speed tricolor wheelset with Mavic rims from a forum member for $125 recently.
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I have been looking high and low for a rear 7 speed HG rear in NOS or almost new. Found a VGC SET on the bay, my question is 140.00 inc ship a crazy price for this hub (since I have a NOS front, I am looking at this as the cost for the rear)?
I need it to finish a complete Tri Color build.
I need it to finish a complete Tri Color build.
I've seen a couple nice Tri-Color rear hubs come and go in the C&V for sale forum -- keep an eye out there. 
03-19-15, 01:49 PM
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Sounds pretty steep, but if its the last piece of the puzzle or something and you are going NOS on everything else ---- go nuts
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Seems way steep to me. There is a forum member named RobbieTunes who might still have a stash of them. I believe I got two complete sets from him over the last few years. Put up an ISO search. They're around. If all else fails, and you are exceedingly desperate, I have one here, which will take a month in transit due to my location.
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I'll usually source a hub like that from an old wheel that gets discarded at the shop due to rim damage.
But if you're on a short timetable and just need a hub, then I'd bet that someone here has one they'd sell.
But if you're on a short timetable and just need a hub, then I'd bet that someone here has one they'd sell.
03-22-15, 08:14 AM
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Price seems steep, I wouldn't pay it, but that said, these hubs are arguably the high point in Shimano's long and chequered history of component design. Beautiful, smooth and shiny.
03-23-15, 04:08 PM
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03-23-15, 04:59 PM
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$140? For that price I've been offered a Columbus SLX framed bike with a complete Tricolor gruppo including the 8-speed STI shifters. Anyway, before you commit, I would want to make sure that you do in fact get the HG and not the Uniglide freehub. But the freehub conversion is not that complicated.
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