Originally Posted by delay
Oh, hold on. I just want to be clear. I understand that I could use any cog, however, I feel like I might as well use the splined adapter. To begin with, this was a feature that sold me on them.
The Miche spline system works with
any track hub. That shouldn't have anything to do with your choice of hubs.
There is nothing wrong with the bearings, but there are now lots of other, less expensive hubs with just as good bearings and generally superior design.
Here's what I don't like about the Miche hubs:
- They're one-sided, not flip-flop.
- They have crummy axle nuts with sharp built-in teeth, instead of a captive washer like proper track nuts have.
- The axles have the oddball 26 tpi threading so you can't even buy decent track nuts to fit, unless you go for the obscenely overpriced Campagnolo nuts (those are something over $25 each!)
I've recently heard claims that Miche hubs have been revised, and now have standard 1 mm pitch threading and now use a normal 15 mm wrench. If this is true, it would make me less down on them, but I'm not sure it actually is the case.
Sheldon "Miche-in Improbable" Brown
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