Formula hubs - anything else at this level to compare?

hippy [quote]billa system ex hubs!!!! don't touch them at any cost, when condor built up my work bike and i specified a complete miche groupset they put ex hubs on coz no stock left of miche anyway 6 months later bearings fucked, shit customer service from condor, odd bearing size meant riding 300 miles a week for a month on wobbly noisy wheels. if you can live with black hubs get the dia compe gran compe £40f £45r sweet and smooth after 10,000

Um.. what? 6 months later? Do you park your bike in a lake or something?
Condor service has nothing to do with the hubs.
The bearings are NOT an odd size and can be replaced easily by visiting any bearing retailer (6000 series I think).
I've swapped a set of bearings is mine after 12 months and it turned out to be unnecessary as the noise I suspected was the hubs was actually the BB.[/quote]
no lakes just worked through the winter on them, customer service sucks when you ask for miche and they put stronglight cranks, system ex on instead, i kicked up such a fuss that they were going to replace the bearings for free which is why i had to wait a month for condor to get those "very rare" bearings.
in fact the only good thing with the bike that i didnt change was the frame a pista eom.