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Why are the novatec hubs superior then
Mostly because people seem to keep breaking Miche locknuts, probably stress corrosion cracking </racist>, and Novatec use a normal lock ring thread so you have more options for spares, rather than just Miche/Campag/Phil, and Miche track nuts are 14mm so they don't fit anybody's Peanut Butter wrench, and the bearing inner race seats on the Novatec axles are actually part of the axle rather than being separate 'cones'. But apart from that, yeah, the more expensive hubs from a generalist cycle manufacturer are definitely as good as the cheaper ones from the world's leading hub specialist :-)
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Why are the novatec hubs superior then. Bracing angles on some models are lower.