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Shimano used to make some 20 years ago. These were highly valued by trials riders but their shells accumulated fatigue quickly in that kind of use, because Shimano saved grams on the outer ring of the clutch. Said ring is the part which makes reliable silent clutch hubs heavier than riders these days expect a rear hub to be -- but it doubles as the freehub shell on Mugen. The intended purpose for the Shimano hubs was, wait for it... police bicycles. Then, like noted already, True Precision used to make great, if not watertight at all, silent hubs. These had Imperial bearings throughout, and the singlespeed version for some reason ran proprietary cogs. Quality cogs though, and very forgiving of low chain tension. Then Onyx came about with their somewhat better sealed, all-metric-bearings hubs, and even their SS/DJ one has a HG freehub.

The current filtering criteria are way too broad. For instance, I'm not interested in news on the electric parts of an e-moped, but very much interested in "heavy duty" parts (such as rims and hubs) which are marketed for e-mopeds but are compatible with normal MTBs.

But this would put plastic body pedals at a disadvantage. Also, a few mm extra room per crank has to be taken away from Q-factor and reserved for (real) seals which are missing on the design presented.

@Muckal: From this photo https://ep1.pinkbike.org/p5pb17705991/p5pb17705991.jpg it looks like dual 6900 bearings are used per crank. After all, with custom or hard-to-get bearings it would be an even tougher sell for a product as unusual as this one.

I guess they are the typical PF30, SRAM ring/spider mount thingies.

@zoobab2: I just checked and there seems to be no change.org petition for the bike industry to have 26" back. Perhaps we should start one...

@romkaind: That's an anti-theft feature for free!

Are these going to be available in 26" with 36h drilling?

@fercho25: Hey, you got disc brakes, "through-axles", fat tires, AND dropper posts recently! Aren't those enough for the time being? Well, okay, stay tuned for a series of 1xN drivetrains...