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New Brand spotted at the Sea Otter: The Hive

April 30, 2008

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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!



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



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



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


THE HIVE

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flag AqueousBeef (April 30, 2008 at 17:27) (Below Threshold) show comment
Promising indeed. Digging the fatass flanges and rims
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flag ilovelithgow (April 30, 2008 at 17:30) (Below Threshold) show comment
I've been a longtime fan of Chub hubs. Got a set back in the day for my fixey and they are still going strong. The guy who sold them to me was an east-coaster, a real prick...but they have been one of the best purchases I've made. The curvey disc ones look really elegant.
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flag smarties (April 30, 2008 at 17:52) (Below Threshold) show comment
Cool! Another rider owned company coming into the biking scene.
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flag dhmtbman1 (April 30, 2008 at 18:35) (Below Threshold) show comment
all about them fixed gears
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flag gustofwind (April 30, 2008 at 22:14) (Below Threshold) show comment
could you use the single speed hub or the crank for street?...
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flag t3h1337r (April 30, 2008 at 22:34) (Below Threshold) show comment
I think that question answers it's self.

I sure wouldn't.
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flag t3h1337r (April 30, 2008 at 22:35) (Below Threshold) show comment
Idk if you remember the nukeproof bmx hubs back in the day. Race only... and they meant it.
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flag trekrules (May 1, 2008 at 0:46) (Below Threshold) show comment
looks realy nice
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flag Gang (May 1, 2008 at 1:08) (Below Threshold) show comment
What,s BB whith crank?

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