-----Original Message----- From: Monkeyman <monkey37@bluemarble.net> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Date: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:47 PM Subject: [CR]retro-techno-weenie parts
>I'm an unabashed retro-techno-weenie I like Roval wheels and Modolo brakes,
>but sometimes I need some help. OK, I'm digging through my parts piles
>getting ready for a huge spring cleaning sale and I need the lists help
>with an item. The item is a NIB Winners 2000 rear hub. I've hear that the
>cassette/freewheel (roller clutch) blew-up, what's the deal? This sucker
>is very nice and the machined "suntour" freewheel/cassette body is really
>nice. What's the story with this thing? Is it a super-7 spacing. Is this
>one of those $150,000,000,000 ebay parts? I even have the card for the
>sales manager, Frank Zink. . .who?
Winners, like most boutique (free)hubs, were prone to failure. I personall knew of at least one person who had one fail. I believe that Winner was part of the Fast Feather fiasco, and might have eventually been absorbed into the World Class line (I could be wrong on the latter).
Winner, MachineTech, NukeProof, and early Ringle freehubs were disasters. I can remember a friend's NukeProof cracking to pieces, and I had my Ringle turn into a fixed-gear on a 1.5 mile offroad descent.
About the only non-Shimano freehub I've had good luck with was a Hugi. Granted, it was Hugi guts in a CODA-branded shell, but it worked great. Noisy as hell, though.
Gimme Shimano freehubs anyday.
--mc
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Mark Chandler
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