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It’s a front hub:)
Vintage Hershey front hub…..
purple front hub.
some kind limited edition hope hub from about 15 yrs ago?
It’s a front hub from the 90′s. That’s all I got.
bullseye
NukeProof!
Hershey Racing X ray hub.
Hershey “Naked” hub.
Old Hope Ti Glide front hub?
Hershey Naked Hub
Bullseye hub, I remember wanting to get all sorts of combinations of colors
Dangit… should have known better, Gerald was right.
That is a “Real” front hub. I currently have one on my 26″ single speed beater. If you rotate the axl it would show the label. Another cool feature is that the axl is threaded internally at the ends so it “bolts on” to the fork so that it doesn’t easily get stolen without a tool. Not to stiff to say the least but free to me and works just fine for a super fun beater bike.
By the way mine is black not the cool vintage purple ano that this one is. I’m sure First Flight has the Paul rear der and brakes to match.
Agree with RobO, a Real hub. A friend has one on a Bontrager frame with Onza canti brakes. Good stuff.
That is a Real Designs front hub in Ano Purple.
That looks dangerous
Definitely a Hershey. I would like to see a picture of the Real hub that RobO has. I have never seen a Real hub that looks anything like a Hershey hub.
Clark Kent hub?
Hershey Naked hub. Got a black one on my desk right now too.
Hersey indeed. This one was easy
TNT hub early to Mid 90s.
lol, a Real hub? Everyone can see it is the super rare Grafton front disc hub proto that got stolen at bike show in 1992.
Worlds smallest fishtank.
Real hub!!
Its a Hershey “Lexan” and anodized aluminum front hub.
Designed by Greg G. in Redlands Ca..
It’s a Hershey Naked hub. Designed by Greg G. in Redlands, CA
Front Hershey Naked hub
Everyone who guessed Hershey got it right. At Real Design, we made a few of these, but never any in 3DV purple (that color craze had passed by the time we started making hubs and I refused to do more…)
The end caps are the give away, our Real hubs didn’t have any gap between the shoulder and the bearing race.
…after some thought, I recall that we did a few axles for some of these as a ‘joint venture’ with Greg, though not many. So to RobO, you might have one of the few prototypes or small run we did of the Real laser etching on these. But we never did 3DV purple….though there may be a few gold ones out there!
Hershey Racing Hub….I had one back years ago….
The answer from Jeff at First Flight Bicycles: “a Front Hub made by Hershey Racing. The middle hub shell is a clear plastic tube and the axle has the Hershey logo on it (on the other side so it wasn’t obvious!). Pretty sure they marketed it as the “Naked” hub.”
its a Hershey “Naked hub”, b*****s
Dude, that used to be MY hub, sold it to First Flight a couple years ago!