So I went to my first race this weekend. I did alright. I, probably, came in top 10 of 20 or so in the cross country and then was first in the downhill out of three and propbably second in the dual-slalom. I'd never done dowhill or dual-slalom before so I think I did pretty decent (during the race atleast). Before the race, I ran the slalom course a couple times and wrecked about twice as many. Which brings me too my next topic a new wheel. I taco-ed the crap out of my front wheel before any of the races and therefore I need a new one. I have a manitou black on there now and have been thinking of upgrading to a fork with a 20mm thru-axle and maybe swapping the black onto my cross country fork. So I've decided to go with a Mavic 729 rim, since I have one on the back and it's taken everything I've given without one complaint. So now I need a hub. A chris king, or hugi would be nice and all, but I need something a bit cheper. I don't want cheap though, I don't mind spening a little extra if the value's there. Right now I've been looking at the marzocchi, dimension(actually cheap), Onyx, Diatech, Sunrace JuJu, or a wtb laserdisc. I am open to suggestions however.
:edit: the saint hubs looked alright too but I didn't want to have to pay the extra price for a new rotor.
one other question, are cup and cone bearings better or cartridge for urban/slalom/downhill?

(the taco-ed wheel was a xt/sun mammoth, and I beat it until it would roll in the fork and rode it all day, the bearings were quite loose by the end of the day as well)

I have a set of hugi onyx hubs and they have out lasted mylast 3 wheelsets...ie I have bee thru 3 wheelsets and the same hubs have been on all of them... no problems as of yet...sturdy and worth the extra bucks....I likes em

alright, I'll look into those more. I think they were on the high end of my budget though.

Usually the front hub doesnt matter all that much. All the 20mm hubs come with cartridge bearings and work just as well as the others. The rear hub is where it matters.

What price range are you looking at?
Check out WOOdman components. Something like this, Bill LTI, should run you about 80$ or 90$ and with the V-cups you can use it on your current fork them switch the cups when you upgrade to a 20mm. As dirtbike mentioned though, any front hub will work.

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I was trying to keep it under $100. That hub does look pretty good. The back hasn't given me any problems, the front has. The back is sub-deore, the front is/was xt. I would like to re-build both, but I can't afford that right now...I like that woodman though.