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Old 10-06-12 | 08:05 AM
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[QUOTE=MassiveD;14812113]It is funny when you get a new set of uber hubs with cartridges in them and you turn the axle, they are sticky. But build them out, and you don't feel them when they are being turned by a big wheel, is that the kind of drag we are feeling here, or are we talking feeling it in the pedals? if slightly.

I just had a SON 28 rim built by Peter White. When you spin the wheel it will barely spin a complete circle and you can feel the grabbyness of the magnets in the hub.. The hub has numerous magnets inside the hub that have opposing polarity magnets and as you spin the wheel unloaded you can feel the drag very easily.. but once the wheel is on the ground and spinning I cannot feel any difference over a standard non-generator wheel.
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