- from danscomp "6000 series aluminum front hub with a "flangeless" design to help eliminate spoke damage from ledges, rails and coping. The N4FL front hub uses 2 sealed hub shell bearings that ride on a 15mm hollow aluminum center axle and 3/8"x24tpi chromoly axle bolts that secure the wheel in the fork. The alloy hardware acts as integrated hub guards for more spoke protection.
Note: Uses conventional J-bend spokes in a "heads in" lacing pattern."
-dont know what the guards are made of, there prety weak tho, and if you bend or crack them they will rub the hub shell and slow you down alot, i bought two more guards after the first week running this hub, i had to get more presise with reg and opp smiths and the guards have held up for awile now, snapped the axle alittle while back dident run it for too long cuple months only prety fresh yo,
-with female axles they may have a small bolt however all impact is transfered throught to the axle, if the hub is tightened corectly into the fork, 15mm holow aluminum is wack for an axle riding street like i do, so after cracking that, i got a 14mm stock gt from an old bike, put a soda can shim [little brother got the soda i dont drink that shit] around the 14mm axle and it fit real nice into the 15mm iner race of the bearings, threw guards on, i had to grind down my dropouts on my fork to acomodate the 14mm axle but thats another story, anyways with the new axle its boss i very much like the hub shell haha, i am looking into a bsd ront street as a replacement currently with two g sport glands, those hub guards are rad.
personaly i dont like the hub, 4x lacing and a light front hub is not worth shit axle and guards, its marketed as such a street hub i thought it could take some abuse, only primo parts i run are there pegs and i grind thru those too fast anyway
-good shit-
hub shell desighn requires 4x lacing, awseome tough wheel, 4x cross is dope
it was mad light, light shit snaps tho, said it was desighned for street but not real street aparently
-bad shit-
guards are weak as fuck
axle weak as fuck
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i actually did not use this hub for too long, got my g sport and never had to worry about soda cans around my axle, i still agree with everything i wrote here, a stronger fork would have mad a difference when i first cracked it but i was running one of easterns aftermarket forks, i forgot wich model or year, some people can get away with running the primo n4fl in the front, im just not a fan of the hub, i honestly would not recomend it, primo as a company has never impressed me, their pegs, kamikazi fork and n4fl front hub are the only parts i fucked with but they just did not last, they were light, but the sacrifice for strength was obviously significant
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