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I live in SE Michigan and I have a 2008 Gary Fisher Wahoo hardtail and a 2018 Santa Cruz Tallboy 3 (R Aluminum ) in 27.5+. The latter is my trail bike, the former has been on a few trails but is mostly for riding around town with the family.
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Very nice, welcome aboard.
To be honest I posted this "hello" post because the forum made me before I could post my question (with photos) in another area of the forum.
In the Santa Cruz sub forum under the Tallboy 3 photos area I put up photos of my Tallboy as well as asking why/how my bike comes with SRAM hubs (says SRAM on them) when all specs online for my bike show its supposed to have Novatec's. I never really paid a lot of attention to the hub specs or brand until I started looking at a new set of 29" wheels to use occasionally on my bike, it was at the point I realized mine aren't what they are supposed to be. Based on the feedback I've seen on this forum it sounds like there have been a lot of issues with the Novatec's so It sounds like a good thing I somehow got something different than that. I'm guessing best course of action is to see if Santa Cruz themselves can explain what exactly they are...
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Companies make running changes all the time. The updates often aren't changed on the online spec sheet.
I wouldn't worry about getting clarification on what hubs they are. It doesn't matter, they're just stock hubs. Wether they're Novatec, Sram, Formula, Joytec, whatever, it's a basic hub.
They're probably better than the Novatec hubs which I've been reading a lot of failures are still occurring. The Sram hubs are what they are. Ride them till they die or you decide it's time for an upgrade, then build good wheels.
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Is he even around anymore? I thought he went in to one of his infamous hibernations for awhile again.
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