SON Restock and New Products
More and more bikepackers and adventurers are adopting generator hubs. Having lights whenever you need them, at the flick of a switch, without worrying about battery charge, is liberating when you want to focusing on the road, trail and scenery. SON hubs, with their precision manufacture and unique pressure compensation system, are the only generator hubs that have proven 100% reliable for adventures like the Tour Divide and the Silk Road Mountain Race.
What is the pressure compensation system for, and how does it work? The generator means that these hubs are large, and there is a lot of air inside. During temperature changes, that air expands and contracts. Air (and moisture) gets pushed through the bearings, which often leads to premature failure. The ingenious SON pressure compensation system has an internal reservoir that keeps the air (and moisture) from reaching the bearings and hub internals.
There are other innovative features, like the optional SL system that eliminates wires and connectors. This requires a custom frame with special dropouts (or forkends for thru-axles), which become the contact points for the hub. Rather than having to unplug the hub, you remove the wheel like you do with a standard hub—without having to worry about wires. That’s not just more elegant, but also more reliable.
Due to the high demand, some popular SON hubs have been out of stock, but we just received a shipment from Germany, and now the complete program is in stock again.
New in the program is SON’s aluminum fork crown mount for headlights, now available in two lengths. It’s perfect for bikes with disc or cantilever brakes, and it comes with mounting bolts for different fork crowns.
In other lighting news, we are now offering lenses for our Rene Herse taillights as spare parts. The lenses are glued in with epoxy to resist vibrations and water ingress. With modern LED circuits inside, there is nothing to break in the taillights, so you usually don’t have to open it. However, if you accidentally rip off the taillight wire, you need to access the internals of the taillight to reattach it. To do so, you carefully break the lens and remove it. Now you can get a spare lens with its integrated reflector.
More Information:
- Generator hubs in the Rene Herse program
- Lights
- Spare parts
