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@edmundane
that sounds really bad. anyone with sound mechanical knowledge of bikes should be able to easily tell a proper track hub from a suicide hub (mike's list of 'dead giveaways'), and kiwi paul should have known better!
i've had this kind of experience before. bought my track bike off the 2 fat guys at a jumble. i told them i was going to ride it on the road. too many dodgy things about that bike for me to realise the 3 months after.
edit: another giveaway is that track hubs normally have the bearing 'bulge' on the inside of the flanges, not the outside. chris's pictures of miche hubs illustrates this rather well.