AlexTemper
Dirt Disciple
Something a little more unusual for those of you that have a thing for Hubs and these come with a back story, which for me, making an item more interesting. Here, I have a set of prototype Spectrum Racing Hubs using a Shimano Freehub body that never went into final production.
Who is Spectrum Racing? For those that were racing back in the mid/late 90's, you may well remember the name of a UK rider called Stefan Gleed who raced XC and moved across into DH proper. A few of you, like me, probably rode with him most weeks for years as well. As well as being a decent rider Stefan was also a bit handy with making his own parts and did a very small run of maybe 5 sets of Hubs under the guise of Spectrum Racing. A few of us them tested them out for him as a bit of R&D with a view that he would probably look to start of with low volume production runs. This would have been around '94 or '95 at a guess. I imagine the costs and priority of racing prevented this from ever happening but 20 odd years later, these hubs are still going well and I think look great, ignoring that they need a proper clean.
So here they are:
Who is Spectrum Racing? For those that were racing back in the mid/late 90's, you may well remember the name of a UK rider called Stefan Gleed who raced XC and moved across into DH proper. A few of you, like me, probably rode with him most weeks for years as well. As well as being a decent rider Stefan was also a bit handy with making his own parts and did a very small run of maybe 5 sets of Hubs under the guise of Spectrum Racing. A few of us them tested them out for him as a bit of R&D with a view that he would probably look to start of with low volume production runs. This would have been around '94 or '95 at a guess. I imagine the costs and priority of racing prevented this from ever happening but 20 odd years later, these hubs are still going well and I think look great, ignoring that they need a proper clean.
So here they are:
