Originally Posted by
Darth Lefty
I think you might be surprised on a piece-by-piece comparison. I'd guess that your hub is about the same weight as the inexpensive cassette and freehub and RD it replaced. Your bike weighs thirty-plus pounds unloaded. A racy road bike weighs about half that. It's not one part that makes the difference, it's differences in all the parts.
The hub weighs 5 and a half pounds. It has solid steel spheres inside, and its full of friction fluid. The input and output discs are also about 2x thicker than a standard gear sprocket.
- Andy
Last edited by TransitBiker; 05-11-15 at 03:40 PM.