Hello everyone.
Looking around for a pair of nice new and affordable hubs for the new bike. A Condor branded set comes in @ £55 so seems good value and I would have thought they wouldn't put their name to shoddy kit. Has anyone ridden these or does anyone know anything about them?
Thanks.

depends wether they are the good ones made for them by goldtec, or if they branded some other shit up

£55 sounds a bit cheap for a pair

apparently thy're goldtechs so should be good, just double check coz when i got this information they were about twice as much as the pricew you mentioned.

I believe the ones you're on about are made by Formula with a Condor branding on the barrel of the hubshell.

I've had two pairs. The hubs themselves are very good, but the washers that go on the inside of the dropout ( what are they called anyway? ) are made of cheese and will break and you'll have a bugger of a job finding replacements.

I have one on my rear wheel. Been running it for about two years without really doing much to it, and it's still running fine. I mean, it's not like a virtually frictionless dura ace track hub, but it's a fraction of the price. so for riding around town i reckon it's fine.

I was told they were made by suntour and branded for Condor.

Suntour? You sure you heard right? They've not made decent anything since the 80's maybe early 90's.

also try on one track hubs cheap but pretty durable in my experience (150 - 200 miles a week over nearly 2 years) they look like system x / formula hub to me.

These look ok from Parker's, although I've no experience of them:
System Ex Large Flange Track Hubs


£44.95
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SYSTEM EX LARGE FLANGE TRACK HUBS

Lightweight large flange track hubs with fixed thread on one side and single freewheel thread on the opposite side of the rear hub.

• Sealed bearings
• Solid axles
• Complete with track nuts

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I just bought a pair of these:

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-S...hole-11137.htm

£40.00, double-sided fixed.

the condor ones are miche rebranded.

since last year condor have added some lower budget track parts to their own brand, such as cheapo sugino cranks, cheaper hubs. I noticed though they had some funky lookin hubs in the shop though...with perfectly simmetrical high flanges, as usual, but instead of having just a regular cilinder connecting the two, something more in the shape of a cone: larger on one side than the other, it think the price on those was £55, and i would not have a clue what brand of those would be.
But if you want value for money just go for sistem x, formula, i have a wheelset built on those and it's still working fine.

I didn't have cotton wool in my ears. They may not have been selling abroad for a while but the company is still going. But I dunno, take it up with Jan in BLB, it was his opinion.

http://www.srsuntour-cycling.com/

asymmetrical, condor-branded sounds like a Goldtec hub - ask Hamster, he's got them on his bike.
don't think they were that price though - he paid a pile more than that.

don't go to BLB bikes, i've read bad things about them on here

i have the asymmetric condors, and they are indeed made by goldtec, and are more expensive than standard goldtec

Suntour were bought out by SR in 1995ish - all their designs and technology were abandoned, though the name lives on.
They made some excellent bits 1980-95: XCpro, Superbe pro - very nice!

Miche

Thanks for all the replies. The Condor hubs have solid flanges whilst Formulas I have seen have cut outs, and my Miche Primatos have totally smooth, flush flanges (you've got to love a flush flange). The Condors' flanges are machined / lathed so they are gradiated. Going to see Arup now to get them laced to some Campag Atlanta rims. I'll lt you know how I get on.

winston any idea whether the front hub can be spaced to 110mm?

why would you want to do that?

huh?!!! is this bikeforums.net suddenly?

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Actually, I spend much of my time in BLB slagging off lfgss

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not sure why you'd want to do that, I know tht the rears can go down to 110mm, will have a look when I get them back from the wheelbuilder...

I thought the new black condor hubs came from the same place as the black dia compes? Er. that'd be Dia Compe then.. Ive got the old condor branded silver formula/EXs.

Youre right about suntour. They may still be going, but they dont make anything nice any more.

@winston and RPM: er....obviously I'm not getting the right idea about ff spacing measurements here.

back to Sheldon's site.

After consulting w/ Arup yesterday we think the condor ones I got are rebranded formulas but with solid flange walls. They look lovely. I'll be rolling on them this time next week. Thanks for all the replies. After looking at the receipt the pair actually came in £47.98 so as long as they don't explode in the next year seem pretty good value.

hmm. as an addendum to this, i just stripped one of the lockring threads on my goldtec condor hub - surprisingly easily, i might add.