Monday, November 23, 2009

Broken Profile Fixed Hub



A cone broken off somebodys' Profile Fixed Hub. And these were supposed to be some burly American-made hubs from a respected BMX brand, yeah? Ok, of course stuff sometimes breaks, especially if abused, but still this makes me wonder a bit about their design...

From here.

3 comments:

Prolly said...

Better the $10 cone snapping than the flange cracking. Profile's new proper 3/8" axles solve this problem. It's a learning process...

I've snapped 3 cones.

Anonymous said...

now are these cracking from abusive riding or from over-torquing the bolts?

asb said...

What? No shitstorm? You already forgot that H+S rim fiasco you instigated some time ago?