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White industries or royce hubs have steel axles. Both are perfect.
Hadn't thought of Royce, not sure why. Probably never associated them with disc hubs. The Royce website is truly awful - I'll see if Cliff will disclose some top secret secrets like how much he charges for the damned things!
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another option if you want something thats truly indestructible would be Phil wood???
Not cheap, but in the long run, in a situation described above would surely pay off.
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Seen a cracked royce flange in the flesh... the guy was not supposed to build it radial, but being a 20 holes hub, one would expect it to be an option...
It seems to me that my sample size is more representative of a few photos on the web of which we know very little... the large crack might be the result of a four feet jump with a bad landing... people on mountain bikes do crazy stuff with their bikes.
broken_777
ugosantalucia
White industries or royce hubs have steel axles. Both are perfect.
A novatec d771 should be good enough but it has an alloy axle.