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From: edler@cmcl2.UUCP (Jan Edler)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: sealed bearings
Message-ID: <2404@cmcl2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 09:36:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 23 09:36:29 1984
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I bought Phil Wood sealed bearing hubs and bottom bracket
in 1974, and rode heavily for about a year.  During that time
I had no problems, and enjoyed their maintenance-free quality.
After that I stopped riding very much, but I still have them and
they still work fine.  They came with a five year warrantee, as I recall.
I never made a serious attempt to compare them with other hubs, but
I always assumed they had slightly higher resistance than top quality
conventional bearing hubs.  The only thing I know for sure is that if
you spin the wheel when it is off the ground, it keeps spinning for a long
time.

	Jan Edler	floyd!cmcl2!edler	(New York University)
			edler@nyu