Re: [CR]white campy grease (is it true what they say?)

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From: "Phil Brown" <philcycles@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]white campy grease (is it true what they say?)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:47:34 -0800
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


On Nov 20, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Isaac Schell wrote:
> Recently I built a pair of NOS campy pista wheels. The hubs still spun
> very smooth so I did not bother to repack them. However, a friend of
> mine told me that I should make a point to repack them with regular
> grease because that super expensive white campagnolo butter is not
> meant to be used on wheels which are ridden very often (and I will be
> riding these almost every day). Is this a cycling urban legend? Lie?
> Or actually true. It seems plausible only because everything cycling
> seems so specifically engineered.
> In the words of Col. Potter, "Horse pucky!"
Phil Brown
Berkeley, Calif.