Product Description
Exquisite and extraordinarily rare handbuilt in the USA hub. Curtis Odom started creating these in very low numbers in 2012. He designed them after legendary hubs of yesteryear (pre-war to 1960's). This one is the "Holey" model, inspired by Airlite and early FB / Campagnolo Gran Sport 3-piece hubs. Others include the Harden Bacon Slicer hubs and French Prior "Pepper Pot". The flanges are an incredible 4 inch diameter! They have a highly polished finish, tons of drillium holes, and Curtis's scrolly signature on the shell center. This will be a pure attention getter built into a wheel or as a centerpiece of a bike display or mantle.
In an interview, Odom described them. "Unlike the earlier hubs mine are much more complicated to build," said Curtis. "The flanges are threaded, epoxied, and torqued to the center bodies. All spokes holes and designs are milled or drilled after the bodies are assembled. There are two reasons I build them this way, one is the four inch diameter flange with thin center sections are almost impossible to machine without issues caused by such a deep cut and flex, the other is that I really wanted to replicate the chrome center look by using a stainless steel center."
Condition
New, never laced. Bearings are perfect. Slightest shop wear/dirt.
Details
- 32 hole
- Spacing: 100mm
- For standard QR skewer
- Flange diameter: 102mm