Thread: Nexus 8 reliability in high mileage usage?
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Old 09-07-07 | 06:36 AM
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Originally Posted by unkchunk
...riding over 5,000 miles/year for the last two years and say... oh... have had about no problems at all with the hub...
Thank you for the encouraging report. Several internet posters have reported 10,000 miles to be an average lifetime for the Nexus 7 hub. The 8 seems to be better in all respects, but I think yours is the highest mileage I've read about to date.

For reference: Heinz Stucke rode his F&S three speed hub 335,000 miles between 1962 and 2005. Tommy Godwin rode his Sturmey four speed 100,000 miles in 499 days back in 1939-40. Both gentlemen have appeared in various editions of the Guiness Book of World Records.

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