New Brand spotted at the Sea Otter: The Hive

Posted: Apr 30, 2008

Established earlier this year, The Hive is a company formed of avid cyclist committed to improve cyclists experience with innovative products. They picked the Sea Otter classic to give people a sneak peak of what they have to offer.

Thus far The Hive have a fairly limited product line – fixed gear hubs and singlespeed hubs, but I've been told they got a lot of cool stuff coming down the pipe!

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Chub Fixed Gear Hub

Massive rear flanges mated to a mighty carbon tube increase torsional stiffness and fatigue life, minimize windup. Spoke stress is decreased 70% over conventional high flange hubs.

· Stout 15mm 7075 Aluminum through axle
· Smooth rolling sealed ball bearings
· Massive clamping force provided by twin M10 Ti Screws
· Optimized fiber orientation for torque transfer between flanges
· 24 or 32 hole; 120mm or 130mm spacing
· 296 grams

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SS Disc Rear Hub

Chub singlespeed disc hubs incorporate the technical advantages of our track hubs into an ISO disc compatible, thread on singlespeed hub.

· Stout 15mm 7075 Aluminum through axle
· Smooth rolling sealed ball bearings
· Massive clamping force provided by twin M10 Ti Screws
· Optimized fiber orientation for torque transfer between flanges
· 32 holes; 135mm spacing
· 286 grams
· Polished Silver Flanges and 3K Weave Carbon Fiber Shell

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SS Cranks

The SS cranks by The Hive are still in development but they hope to have them ready by this fall. The name of the crankset is still to be determined.

· 30mm Polygon Spindle based on DIN Standard
· 100% surface contact crank to spindle, the ultimate in rigidity
· 700g complete
· Optional guard
· Available Late Fall ’08

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THE HIVE

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