threadworthy: hubguards

[G]

I see the structural idea of the shape of the uniguard, but worry that it would feel odd when ice-picking since its not round, seeing how I normally grind on normal hubguards.

Dropouts aren't round either.

The guard is only holding your lateral position, it shouldn't have much weight on it so I very much doubt that there would be even a slight effect, probably less significant than a slight flat spot ground on your peg.


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[dude...]

i always land on my guards cos im sketch, i reckon id bend the uniguard inwards pretty quick.

i got a daily grind guard on my driveside which is pretty sweet. for the front i reckon no guards and an inward laced hub is the best setup ive ran


had one of these laced inward and the recessed bits in the shell for the heads meant i never smashed any spokes, only ground into the shell a bit but it lasted ages and is still chilling in my shed

theres a few other companys do hubs with similar recessed bits in the flanges that would work, shadow do, cant think of others off the top of my head

[badlight]

Tree should bring back their original front hub. I always thought that was a cool idea, and a lot less annoying than trying to get special spokes.

[streetStreet]

Macneil did that too.

[dude...]

i had a macniel one on the front and it wasnt as good. the outbound spokes still would break, but the hubshell folded over them so it made replacing them a pain. had to gouge out the deformed shell with a flat head screwdriver to make the space to get them out

[streetStreet]

Yolo

[RAILS!]

My gland 2 & 3s annoy the absolute shit out of me because I break so many zipties/shoelaces/whatevers holding them on.

...but the fact it's so easy to re-attach them and they don't EVER catch is what makes me continue to run them over other guards, especially metal types which need the whole wheel moving.

On the driveside my metal DSG has been MINT. could not be happier with that.

[weedbix]

Never broke a shoelace (Mk2 and 3), I broke some zipties though. The included ones all broke. The first ones I found in my garage all broke, but to be fair they were at least as old as 1992. I tried some new, smaller ones, singularly and in pairs, broke them. Tried some beefy as shit ones, broke some of them. If I made real sure to avoid having any being above flush with the guard itself, they were fine

Laces are the way to go for several reasons I won't go into, but I used zipties for one side of both my wheels (due to having 4 of them) because it was proving too annoying to thread and dial the laces in like you can with one 1 gland per wheel

Never had a HTP Private Part/clone snag on me back in the day

[Stoked]

Never had An issue with shoelaces on glands.  Keen to try the merrit guard though

[Zoidberg]

i'm glad this has generated a bit of debate considering it's a pretty mundane topic

where do people stand on slot on vs threaded?

[tim_sch]

Tree should bring back their original front hub. I always thought that was a cool idea, and a lot less annoying than trying to get special spokes.

What was the idea of it? Any pics?

[dude...]

the mankey strap was a million times better than the zipties for holding glands on. i think if you leave a tiny bit of slack, the zipties are ok, but if you crank em down real tight they just snap off

[badlight]

The Macneil hub was a fair bit different, and ultimately kind of shitty.

[tim_sch]

And what's so good about the holes being offset?

[KillSeth]

I believe the offset spoke holes allowed you to inward lace the wheel. That, combined with the thicker flange, meant that the spokes and spoke heads were less prone to grind damage.