Cartridge type road hub without quick release

Posted on Sun 13th, June 2010

• #1

Bikebuilder

(slightly off topic warning)

I’m planning to build a bike with gears. There seems to be a very large selection of high quality hubs for track wheel (I recently used got a pair of White Industries Track hubs and I’m impressed with the quality).

Any suggestion of a pair of road hubs (with Shimano compatible a freewheel mechanism) that would not have the annoying quick release mechanism, which makes the wheels very easy to steel, and that would have similar high quality bearings as the ones on White Industries hubs?
• #2

kerley

Why not just change the quick release skewers to allen key skewers?

You can then choose from a vast range of road hubs that are potentially better than your White Industry hubs.
• #3

deleted

you can get high quality non-cartridge bearing hubs and you want a shimano freehub, not freewheel, which most road hubs are.
• #4

Lolo

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