London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

Check these bad boyz out.

http://bythehive.com/?page_id=22

OOoo. Thats tasty

noice

They look heavy as fuck!
I would still love to have one though.

had one of those in my old shop. the bonding between the flange and the hub body just didn't work, you could twist the flange around with your hands. and it had neve even been built on before. looks good though.

super light. really light alloy flanges/hollow thing carbon body.

I want one, even more now...lol

Oooerr! Well they seem to say from the website that this is a new run so maybe they have improved things by now. I don't really know anything about bonding to know if it's capable of taking the torque needed on a fixed hub. It gets used on spinergies as they have an alu shell and then carbon so may be they just needed to perfect the execution of the technology?

they were the miracle hub first time round, but in practice didnt work so good. look awesome though. i hope they they sorted out the issues now

I spoke to one of the fellows working on the project for the new Chub hubs.

The first version were all hand made by the designer. While many of them were fine, being a single individual in a small company, without a lot of R&D money, he couldn't produce the hubs to high enough tolerances to be completely reliable.

The new ones are being manufactured more precisely by a large hub manufacturer (with the original designer still on board), so the problems with the originals should be long gone. The bonding process is supposedly much more refined and consistent now.

i'd be really interested to see a new one then, but does it also mean the price goes up? if i remember correctly, they were stoopid expensive ($250 for a rear).

saw a guy rocking one of these on clerkenwell road (i think it was the same but without the graphic) on bianchi concept (i think again). i said "nice ride.... what's the hub? a coaster? internal geared?" tho i couldn't see any cabling, so silly me. he said "no, just a big carbon hub" or something to that effect. so i say "nice", smile and me and vic ride off discussing how weird it looked. conclusion = very fucking weird. :D no offence!

those hubs are UGLY

I hate it.. makes me feel like killing someone..

so have they been bought up by another company?? I thought they went bust because of the price / reliability problems?

kinda reminds me of BMX hubs, in particular G-Sport hubs: