Now I was willing to accept this if you wanted something special. Mud tyres or spikes or combination road / gravel tyres or even doing 45° angle corner leans at 80kph down Alpe d’Huez or whatever but surely, SURELY, for just going A to B in an paved enviroment it wouldn’t matter?
Yeah no turns out the premium shit does feel great and rolls better. I can never return.
That basically works out along the lines of hoovers where people think if it doesn’t scream at you it’s cheap. There’s really very little technical need for them to do that and how good of a hub they are is also entirely removed from that question
“If my hub isn’t screaming bloody murder, how will I remember that it cost more than my first bike???”
I know in the case of mountain bike hubs, the trend for higher engagement points is at least partially to blame. I hear the fast engagement is nice, but I can’t take the sound. Maybe one day I’ll get to experience a clutch hub. I’m curious what it’ll be like on tricky technical climbs, but I mostly want the silence.