I cannot find any info on these. The only Miche hubs on Google seem to be track hubs. I am posting here because they are from a early 90's Bianchi. Are they worth rebuilding???What is their quality???
Thanks

I've told this tale before, but the cheap Miche hubs I owned in the '80s were the only hubs I ever had where the spoke ends pulled right through the flanges on the drive side of the rear hub...like a hot knife thru butter! Now THAT's cheap alloy... these were also sold as "Cycle Pro" brand, but often came with Miche stamped on the shell...so in MY opinion they are/were crap, but others find them to be perfectly servicable, if low quality hubs. The track hubs are in another league altogether, hard to believe they are even made by the same factory (probably NOT) and the price for those is WAY above average ($500 pair in Track-Crack addled SF, CA LBS)

Curious, have you had experience with Miche Competitions? I have a front on a Benotto rim that I purchased at one of the LBS. Looks like a very nice hub with the Campy-quality look to it, and an oiler port.

Take care,

-Kurt

I have a Miche front hub on a wheelset that sounds just like the one Kurt was talking about. Seems like pretty nice quality to me.

Benotto HR 22 clincher rims w/stainless spokes? If so, that's the wheel I have. Bought it at the LBS for $7. Couldn't find the matching rear

-Kurt

It's too late to run to the shed to check the model, but the Miche hubs I have are Campy-nice. They also have oil ports.

In the mid 80's, Miche Competition hubs were a sub $30. retail pair of budget Campagnolo look alikes, skewers not as nice, but for training wheels, fantastic.

Some friends and I were hanging out in the garage last fall, drinking a bottle of wine and shooting it after a ride, and we did a spin test on early dura ace, later dura ace, campy record, campy nuovo tipo, and miche competitions. The bikes were hung from a hook and the front wheel spun and timed until it stopped. The miche rolled about 2.5 times as far as any of the others...

It gets kind of boring here in the fall, in between biking and skiing...

Have a set of low flange Miche Competitions on my '81 Panasonic. Nice finish, good quality, Campy look-a-likes. I have nothing bad to say about them.

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1+. Funny thing, I tried this myself when I got the wheel. It's in desperate need of repacking, but I spun it anyway. With medium force applied, that wheel spun for a complete two minutes.

-Kurt

Sounds like so I was too hasty condemning Miche based on that one set of low-grade hubs...but I never owned any others, certainly not any Competitions and nothing that anybody would call "Campy-nice". Reminds me of how my impression of Normandy hubs (based on a lot of cheap bike-boom large-flange hubs) was revised way up when I got my first set of Pro hubs with the red seals...like night and day as I recall them.