They're not very useful. In fact I've seen some stores slashing prices trying to unload inventory
of them already. Cute idea but totally uneeded. Also not a unique idea either. Amp-Research
offered the same things years ago to convert shimano parallax rear hubs to accept Amp rotors. I
have a LX hub laced with one on my Amp B3. While in Amp's case they were a useful product (since
at the time, shimano didn't make ANY disc hubs and it was better than Amp making their own rear
hubs), these other ones are useless given how cheap you can buy brand new disc hubs (from shimano,
formula, and others).
Slacker wrote:
> > Has anyone here ever used these?
> >
> >
http://www.firstprinciples.ca
> >
> > --
> > - Zilla
>
> I've never heard or seen any talk/use those, but they are very interesting.
>
> IMHO, if you're going to re-lace your wheel anyway, why go thru all that hassle....just get a
> decent disc hub (XT's are dirt cheap) for pretty cheap. After you add up the savings using that
> thing, you're actually not really saving much money, plus you'll never be able to sell the hub
> after the mod.
>
> Just my $.02.
> --
> Slacker
