So this answers one question I've had for awhile. The only experience I've had with Hi-E hubs was in 1981, at the bike shop I spent too much time in. The owner was showing me some things about light parts, and had a pair of very light hubs that were Hi-E. He wouldn't sell them ny more, since the other set he sold lasted about a week. He showed me how the spoke holes were not finished as well as other brands, and were unevenly spaced! The ones Ive seen on ebay seem to be made much better, and the stuff seems to have a better reputation than that one set would make me believe. So the questions I have now are 1) How many levels of hubs did they make? 2) Assuming the ones I saw were some superlight thing, did those get better?
Thanks, Steve Birmingham Lowell, Ma
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Message: 13 Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 20:18:53 -0400 From: Joe Bender-Zanoni <joebz@optonline.net> Subject: Re: [CR]RE: Phil Wood now Hi-E To: "Bingham, Wayne R." <WBINGHAM@imf.org>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Yep Hi-E. The heavier duty hubs like these are quite reliable, I put 40K miles on a set, then had them rebuilt like new. That set is from about 1980 and had the reflective stickers (that lead to no markings). My Hi-E track hubs from 1988 or so (custom 92 / 100 mm width by the way are laser cut or something with the Hi-E logo.
So thats a rough bracket.
Joe Bender-Zanoni Great Notch NJ
(older part clipped-- S.B.)