This time around, we have a rear hub for DJ/Street, what have you. I got this to build up with my Halo Freedom 29′er rims for a set of singlespeed wheels. I haven’t built them up yet, but here are the specs and some info about it.

Last bikes ZAKK hub comes with the following :

The ZAKK rear cassette hub is made of 6061 and 7075 aluminum with an oversized axle and 10 mm CrMo bolts. The driver is a one piece construction made of super strong 7075 aluminum and features 6 double pawls. The one piece driver construction allows us to use bigger bearings in the driver. We use two 15×28x7 mm oversize bearings that have a static load rating of 2240 Newton and a dynamic load rating of 4360 Newton. This is more than 200% compared to bearings used by other companies in their single speed drivers. The result is a dramatically increased life time for the driver bearings. The flanges are spaced symmetrically 35,5 mm from the center line for similar spoke tension on both sides. This gives you a stronger and more balanced wheel. The big diameter of the axle cups gives you a rigid interface with the dropouts. Besides this we took off all unnecessary weight, which leads to a total weight of 449 g (11T), 450 g (12T) and 457 g (14T). These weights include steel bolts. The hub is designed to work with 3/8″ wide chains, 135 mm dropout spacing and comes in 32 and 36 spoke hole versions.

So If you can restrict yourself to an 11,12 or 14 tooth rear, and have weight issues of the non-titanium type, (read : like beer, hate exercise…) this might be the rear hub for you. I’ll let you know how it works out for me.

—me.