Garth, So far I have only received the one White hub, a front 32 hole that I finally settled on after a year of procrastination for my Rohloff bike. It is beautiful, and the shape will go nicely with the big hub in the back because it has a swollen look like Rohloff, though no larger than the average front hub. It is pretty stunning. I have White Ind cranks and BB for the same bike, and some polished Paul brakes, I think it will look pretty nice, and work really well.

As far as hub rebuilds are concerned, it only takes a 2mm key to get in there, but I think I read while scanning the instructions that one had to press the new bearings in place. If a bearing went bad that does not sound road fixable, while the Phil is now designed to be road fixable, so that was a pretty big screw-up on my part since the whole idea of a Rohloff hub adventure touring deal is ultimate reliability and if anything goes wrong the maximum ease of repair.

Worst things about loose bearings are the mess of getting in there and the cone wrenches. The actual work of a complete replace and grease pack is pretty quick and easy, and the result is a nearly new hub. So I like that about them. Some say the best ultimate billet hub is the DT because it has high end billet (hardened axle) features and is a loose bearings hub.

I have a 40 hole front and back white hub coming, and the price is right, and the Ti arbour sounds like a good way to remove a weak part and do it at lower cost and weight than the Phil. Upside of Phils are the spoke length can be the same front and back (unless one has disc brakes), and the hubs are road fixable. To some degree the White Ind stuff might be better on a closer to home bike like the MTB it is designed for.