Originally Posted by slvoid

On my old mtb that I commute with it daily and did long weekend rides on. About 100-120 miles a week in the winter, 200 or so in the summer for 2 years. The only thing that went wrong was the rear derailleur was crashed on a few times and bent so I replaced it. Other than that, everything, even the bb worked fine. I'm not saying it was in new condition but it still spun just fine (nothing I noticed). The "without service" part means it was never opened up. I cleaned the outside of it every month or so by wiping the grit off, that was it. This is a geared bike, so you can't expect it not to click. Geared hubs have a ratchet inside that click whenever you coast. Plus the derailleur, unless it has a perfect chain line, will always make a small amount of noise too. I replaced the chain twice, never took it off to clean it either, just wiped it down every month. So I think what I meant to say was that the hub on my geared wheel survived; which is apparently very different than one in a SS even though technically, it should be even easier and cheaper to beef up the SS one.

Hurricanes are pretty fun, the ones that make it up here to NYC aren't officially classified as hurricanes, just the left overs, but you do get 50-60mph winds and pouring horizontal rain. It's great to see the look on a coworkers face, even better that I get a place to change and dry myself at work, not so great when you go into puddles that are deep enough to submerge the bb.