Eccentric Rear Hub Q

Are there any cheaper eccentric rear hubs than White Industries Eno Hubs?

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there are cheaper frames than there are eno hubs.

In fact my frame's about 1/2 the price of an ENO hub :-(

I guess White Industries got the patent (or whatever's needed).

Cheers

The don't have a patent on it (AFAIK). They're just the only company willing to put the machining time into producing them. You can find instructions for making your own using basically the same design, but I think for most people it makes more sense to just buy it.

I had one. It worked, but I didn't love it by any means. I eventually replaced the frame with something with horizontal drops and changed the axle to a non eccentric. In future, I will simply always use frames with some sort of tensioning system built in. There's plenty of good, cheap options out there.

I also have one of their freewheels. That, I love.

I've herd a lot of good things about their freewheels. That they last forever.

I have an ENo hub on my bike and its brilliant. Had considered buying the disc version for my SS MTB, byt realised that would cause all sorts of problems with lining the disc up. The hubs are brilliant great quality (as you would expect from White ind) and really easy to set up. Just need to keep a 19mm spanner with me for when I want to tighten the chain line up...

Probably not as good as Horizontal drop outs , but a great solution if you dont want to change your frame. Often see them going cheap on ebay...