• Bitex I think, not totally sure. Which are decent hubs. Suspect Hunt opt for a lower grade of quality control to get the price down, or are openly buying seconds. Or when touring all the factories got one of the copy cats to mimic one of the well knowns. All heresay. Used to work in China + Taiwan briefly, got a good flavour for how things are done, and generally its not the Chinese or Taiwanese manufactures who are taking the piss, its the western brands messing about.
    Experience in the workshops, you tend to notice trends on certain parts and mftr's*

    *I.E Shimano 105 + Ult flat mount calipers with the brake pad pin seizing in place. My record is a 3 month old bike, one pin totally rotten, needed a new caliper, shimano had none, and still deny its even an issue (not heard of that before mate!) so the guy ended up returning entire bike to retailer (not me thankfully) for refund, and then bought same bike from another retailer. But then took the fecking stupid rotting pins immediately out and replaced with old MTB hex bolt pins. Issue solved. Just this minute literally saved 2 more calipers from pin seizure, 1 year old bike, done a thousand miles if its lucky, both right right on the edge of been stuck in there.

  • You can drill it out and tap it again. Or just drill and MTB folding pin. It's incredibly shit and time consuming.

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