When is cheap going to stop in the bike community? bk

When "cheap" drops the "e" and pays up like all the other chaps.

=8-)

This isn't a cheap solution but Phil Woods does have 120mm freewheel hubs available.

Lolwut.

Might as well ask when Rolls-Royce customers are going to stop expecting several cows to die for their upholstery.

The aluminum should be recycleable.... but your local waste service may required you to pull out all the steel stuff like the axles and put that in the bin separately....

That is the reason why my next tool purchase / creation will a race/cup remover. Right now old and defective hubs are treated as mixed metal and get a much lower payout. The moment I remove them from the hub shell - my shells then get recycled as alloy.

=8-)

One of the LBS guys I know, makes really neat things with old bicycle hubs, such as lamps, pencil holders etc. Very creative guy (and he's in his 60's, so age is not an obstacle to creativity).

Page two and no pics? :(

As noted, 120mm and 126mm hubs share the same 110mm hub body -- just buy any "126mm" hub and do the necessary surgery. :thumb:

Laceing a new rim onto a hub that has any kind of a crack is throwing good money after bad.

Neither reworking an existing hub to 120mm nor resetting the frame to 126mm is half as much work as it will take to rebuild the wheel after the cracked hub fails.