UL190 UltraLight Rear Hub - 190 Grams from BHS

[WinterRider]

Any experience/s with the durability of these hubs? What would be a practical upper weight limit
for this hub?

Thxs.

[Alex_ucsb]

It says that the hub rides on 6802 bearings, which are really really small for use in a rear hub shell - I would not expect them to last very long.

[ITTY]

I built my training wheels with BHS hubs early this year. I can't remember if I used the ultralight or superlight. After about 6-7000 miles and plenty of foul weather, they still spin great. Really good bang for buck light hubs IMO.

[Slagter]

I built my UL190/70 with kinlin X19 and sapim cx ray (24h/28h) in january this year. And I have done between 4.000 and 5.000 km on them. At least 2.000 km in the skandinavian winter, and they still spin smooth. I have been around 82-85 kg this year, and the wheels have certainly not been spared.

AFAIK if the bearings get worn out, they are very cheap to replace.

[eric]

I've got some of the Bitex version of those hubs. One of the ceramic bearings died early on so I replaced with quality steel bearings, which have done well.

BHS uses good quality steel bearings on their hubs. I've a number of BHS hubs, mostly the SL211, which use three 6802s. I've used them for a number of years and I ride a lot. I've had one bearing go bad.

But for an extra 20g or so the SL210s have larger bearings and slightly better flange geomtery.

[kulivontot]

These are the same as the farsports edhubs no? I think there's some reviews in that gigantic thread.

[oreoboreo]

Not positive if they are the same, however I bought a 11sp. freehub from BHS to upgrade my Ed hub purchased from Farsports. It fit perfect and how has 2k miles on them . I had a bearing start to sound funny (course sounding) lubed all of them and all is good.