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Submitted by
Nick Sharp-Rees
a Weekend Warrior
from Maidenhead, England
Date Reviewed: April 5, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$80.00 | | Purchased At: | DIrect | | Strengths: | Profound longevity, very free-running, tough, excellent finish and Bonneville-streamliner machine-aesthetic | | Weaknesses: | Bearing outer surfaces unplated, prone to rust. All alloy surfaces unanodised, subject to slight pitting corrosion | | Similar Products Used: | Maillard, Shimano | | Bike Setup: | Daily-use heavyweight tourer based on Cannondale 1000ST, Bullseye cranks and Campag Ergo Record 27-speed gearing | | Bottom Line: | Broke almost everything I ever owned, nothing affects these hubs after 12 solid year's 365-day/year use in British weather conditions. 1 lube job so far and on first wheel rebuild (4 cross 40x10-14 spoke).
When you trash what you have now, get Bullseyes. Freewheels are still manufactured and this system outlasts anything Shimano or Campag have to offer at the top end.
I carry up to 70lb a day on the rear carrier alone and the rear hub runs like the day it was made. I cannot conceive of a better-value, totally dependable hub for anyone with any type of bike who is willing to spend $80 on the most reliable product around.
Until a cassette rear is available, if you really need cassettes, try a Phil Wood who will offer a similar wide variety and custom service at greater cost. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Peter
a Cross Country Rider
from Montreal, Quebec
Date Reviewed: April 9, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | I have owned many Bullseye hubs over the last 15 years on various bikes - first my bmx then mtn bikes and communter bikes (I've even put one of my old 28h Bullseye hubs on my 6y.o's little bmx bike!). Super strong hubs - very easy to service with a few common tools, basically indestructable although I did have one failure and it was replaced without any hassle or arguement. | | Weaknesses: | No I.S. disk hubs or cassette available. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano, Clark Kent, NukeProof, ATAK, Mavic, American Classic, etc etc | | Bike Setup: | Too many to list over the years | | Bottom Line: | Simply the best hubs for quality and value. Period. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Sean Farney
a Cross Country Rider
from Wheaton, IL
Date Reviewed: December 19, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Southern Kettles circa 1990 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$50.00 | | Purchased At: | Pro Bikes and Likes | | Strengths: | Amazing reliability and performance. Replace the bearings every couple seasons for $20 and ride on. Can't say enough about the company and product. | | Weaknesses: | None | | Similar Products Used: | variety of Shimano on other bikes | | Bike Setup: | Ritchey NiTi frame, Magura, RockShocks, RaceFace, etc | | Bottom Line: | Been riding the same Bulleye's for 13 years. The only piece of equipment to last over the course of my Ritchey SuperComp, P-21, and NiTi as a newbie, hardcore collegiate racer, and recreational cross country rider.
Buy them, regardless of level, as a long term investment | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
PJM
a Cross Country Rider
from Park City, UT USA
Date Reviewed: July 25, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | any | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$100.00 | | Purchased At: | ???? | | Strengths: | These hubs are the simplest, toughest, prettiest, best
designed hubs on the PLANET!! Oversized flanges, cartridge
bearings, one-piece axle, and completely adjustable left to right!! This hub (front) is the STIFFEST hub for suspension
forks available. No kidding. I have laced at least 6 different rims onto this hubset over the years, and they are rock-solid STILL!!! I am still running the front hub on
a brand new 2002 fs ride, and it is without competition.
Easy to maintain, easy to understand, lightweight, and
truly BULLETPROOF!! I have never said this about any
other bike component on the planet, and I belive never
will except in the case of Bullseye hubs.....period | | Weaknesses: | Rear hub is spin-on freewheel only. When bullseye comes up
with a cassette model, I will throw away any and all other
hubsets I may have in the lineup. Availability is sketchy.
| | Similar Products Used: | Everything on the planet... | | Bike Setup: | Kona. | | Bottom Line: | If you can get one of these front hubs, BUY IT!! I ride
3,000 miles a year, break everything I hang on my frames,
except for this bullseye hub! How can Bullseye make such
a simple, effective, bombproof, adjustable, STIFF hub,
and not have every rider chasing down the purchase of one?
I have ridden 6+ years (maybe 8) on this hub. It has
had 7 rims built on it, 2,000+ miles per year, and it
runs so smooth you can't tell it is turning. Granted,
I put a new set of Japanese bearings in it two years ago,
but so what? This product and the performance will
never be matched. When B-Eye develops a cassette rear hub,
I will buy it no matter what it costs..no kidding.
As you can see, I cannot say enough about Bullseye. Where is the cassette version??!?!?!?!?!
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Submitted by
Robert Hollingsworth
a Weekend Warrior
from Los Angeles, CA USA
Date Reviewed: December 25, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Gabrailino, Red Box down to JPL | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Purchased At: | Bullseye (I live near them!!) | | Strengths: | Desired fit, desired strength, desired performance... All top rate!!! | | Weaknesses: | There has been none for me. | | Similar Products Used: | Old BMX large flanged hubs with cups and cones. | | Bike Setup: | Mongoose KOZ cruiser frame, BMX bars from '75, Schwinn "goose neck", Nexus Seven internal geared hub (7 gears), Mavic SUP's 36 spoke, XT V-brakes w/custom welded stantions, flat pedals and Fire Pro DH 2.3 tires. | | Bottom Line: | I've ran this hub at the sugestion of a friend and it's been nothing else since. I've been to Moab, Aspen and San Fransisco with this setup and the hub just keeps spinning. Locally I have a single track to ride out of the canyons that when in the winter can have 20 to 30 stream crossings and I have not had to do ANYTHING to this hub. I've put three different rims on it as well, no problems. I have a new bike since May so I'll moth ball this bike and I bet when it comes out for some cruising that hub is going to roll!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tim Jimenez
a Weekend Warrior
from Moscow, Idaho
Date Reviewed: April 23, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | all of Moscow Mtn. | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | wheel smith wheel builders | | Strengths: | smooth, durable, easy to work on, low maintanence | | Weaknesses: | none really | | Similar Products Used: | I have trashed alot of hubs(cheap shimano, I've broke shimano bottom brakets and cranks too)(down with their monopoly) | | Bike Setup: | 96 Cannondale(I broke my first Cannondale frame so they sent me a new one, that is the only reason I still ride a cannondale) lots of misalanious parts. | | Bottom Line: | I've had these hubs for 6 years. Everyonce in a while I take them apart to see if they're still okay, they always are. I bought them with a wheel set years ago and they are still flawless. I've bent axels on other hubs and destroyed bearing (shimano hubs don't even compare, sealed bearings are the way to go). My only regret is buying a freewheel, but sachs still makes 7 and 8 speed freewheels.
Anyone who wants flawless preformance year after year should buy these hubs. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Keith Dilly
a Weekend Warrior
from Baltimore
Date Reviewed: April 16, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Purchased At: | online | | Strengths: | Superb Quality, very smooth, easy to adjust and change the sealed bearings. Looks good too. Also have threaded spindle so you can use bolts to secure wheels...lighter & more secure. | | Weaknesses: | None so far.
Should be able to get cassettes for a long time to come. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano LX and XT hubs | | Bottom Line: | Just got these hubs after wanting some for ages. I needed a different spindle length for the rear hub so gave Bullseye a call. Absolutely top quality customer support. A new spindle is on it's way. I also learnt all bullseye hub parts (except bearings of course)are gauranteed...break it you get a new one (even if you strip the threads). So far I have only tried the front hub out, which is like silk compared to my old XT setup. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ben B.
a Weekend Warrior
from Los Angeles, CA USA
Date Reviewed: April 11, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$150.00 | | Purchased At: | Bullseye Cycle | | Strengths: | lightweight, strong ,superfast! seperate hub flanges makes for total customization(color combinations and seperate left-right flange drillings possible) | | Weaknesses: | rear hub only accepts screw-on freewheels and they are getting harder to find. gearing limited to 7 or 8 speeds on the freewheels | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano hubs and Rolf-Hugi hubsets | | Bike Setup: | Trek VRX 300 with Nollen/Girvin linkage suspension fork, Kooka XC stem, Bullseye cranks, Deore XT , custom wheelset | | Bottom Line: | I still ride daily on a pair of Bullseye hubs that I purchased back in 1993! I don't ride agressively so I have never come close to maxing out these hubs. They have never been serviced also but run just as smooth as glass after all this time. By comparison, my Rolf-Hugi hubs are brand new and still cannot compete with my "old" bullseyes. I have been able to get any spoke hole drilling I desire with
no problem. The ability to custom design the color and hole
drilling is unique to bullseye and no one else offers this much customization. Bullseye hubs simply ROCK!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Michael Eno
a Racer
from San Francisco, CA
Date Reviewed: February 19, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Downtown San Francisco | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$75.00 | | Purchased At: | Maha Yana Bike Salon, S.F. CA | | Strengths: | Beveled spoke holes mean fewer broken spokes. Sealed bearings can handle heavy loads on cargo bikes without the added friction inherent to cups and cones. | | Weaknesses: | None really. I do wish Bullseye would make a track hub with a reverse threaded lock-ring. Bullseye suggests using lock-tite on track cogs. I'm not sure I trust this, but they said they do it all the time and the cog doesn't loosen. Even with repeated skiding.(they claim) | | Similar Products Used: | Phil Wood mtb, Phil Wood track hub, | | Bike Setup: | I've used these hubs on messenger bikes equiped with full baskets and racks. I also use these hubs on my Kona Caldera mtb. I ride on slicks so these hubs really get daily abuse. Rim of choice is Sun Rhyno Lite. | | Bottom Line: | I think Bullseye makes the strongest hub on the market. Older Bullseye hubs should still be good as new, even after a few rims have failed. I have two older hubs and two newer rear hubs. Also, I am a bike mechanic for a messenger service in San Francisco. I never have to replace broken spokes for riders using Bullseye hubs. I know of more than 20 bike messengers in SF who use Bullseye hubs. Many of these hubs have been used daily on rough streets for more than six years.
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Submitted by
Amos Smith
a Racer
from Chicago, IL
Date Reviewed: July 20, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Hi- Lite Pass | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Light, smooth and excedingly fast with the right bearings (that low end stuff must be avoided...japanese all the way) | | Weaknesses: | If you don't ride them everyday, they may seize if moisture is present. | | Bike Setup: | Mongoose Zero-G SX w/XT&XTR combo, Chris King Headset, Raceface Crank, Body Geometry Pro saddle, Time ATAC Carbon pedals. | | Bottom Line: | Really nice wheels for racers, back in the day. When they fail, they do so completely, making the ride home suck. I'll stick with ball bearings and cones thank you. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
craig
a Downhiller
from fayetteville
Date Reviewed: June 22, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | light weight, smooth, durable | | Weaknesses: | no rear cassette hubs available | | Similar Products Used: | phil wood | | Bottom Line: | great hub, cartridge bearings, super smooth, last forever, i got mine in 95 and it was a few years old then, its still going strong. well worth the money. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Stephen
a Cross Country Rider
from Kirkland, WA USA
Date Reviewed: April 7, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | any singletrack | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | bulletproof, serviceable, relatively inexpensive ($70.00), light enough... can get just about any color combo you want | | Weaknesses: | none that I've come across so far... | | Similar Products Used: | XT, XTR, LX | | Bike Setup: | custom titanium hard-tail, with a mix of parts, Shimano, SRAM, Dia-Comp, Avid, RST, Control-Tech, Onza - hence the name El Bastardo | | Bottom Line: | I'm only using a Bullseye front hub - and built up a wheel with DT Revo. spokes, and alloy nipples on an X517 rim - and am using the allen bolts (the axles are internally threaded) instead of a skewer, which makes for a nice stiff setup on a suspension fork. I'm only about 150# and ride pretty smoothly, but have abused this wheel a fair amount, and it's holding up really well. Lots of mud in the Pacific NW, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for this hub. It's fairly easy to get ahold of the hubs - just call up Bullseye (Roger Durham - founder, designer, and owner- answers the phone pretty frequently, and is glad to take an order). The bearings are easily replaceable if necessary...
overall these hubs rock! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mike Leonard
a Cross Country Rider
from Caribou
Date Reviewed: March 8, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Have had these hubs laced up to Mavic rims for 4 years and they still ride the same as they day I put them on!! Have never owned hubs that even came close! I will probably be to old to bike and they will still be going. I would not be able to guess the miles thye have on them? Been through to many cyclocomputers to keep track. They are light and super stiff and strong. | | Weaknesses: | none | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano LX , DX and XT hubsets. | | Bike Setup: | Used on a Trek 8000 and my Bridgestone Mb-1 | | Bottom Line: | I have friends who have eaten up hubs sometimes twice a season and mine never quit. longets lasting hubs in the business. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Clay E. Ewing
a
from Corpus Christi Texas USA
Date Reviewed: February 27, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Way back when, my local bike shop owner built me a set of wheels. Oh, you see things like this now (light, strong hubs, light spokes and an o so light rim), but, back then for mountain bikes, no one was customizing these ideas. Mountain bike wheels...as stout and heavy as you can get 'em, right? Not mine. My Bullseye hubs have outlasted a dozen rims in the last 11 years. I retired my rear hub only because I can't come up with an 8-speed freewheel so I can keep it on a bike. Otherwise, my front hub has been raced in conditions that would have killed most other hubs. Light. Strong. If you find one, buy it and chuckle all the way home. | | Weaknesses: | Availability | | Similar Products Used: | XT, XTR, Record | | Bike Setup: | Changes as I kill the rim. | | Bottom Line: | Truly one of the first definitions of the finest in aftermarket products. If you find one in good condition, buy it without hesitation. 32 spoke, 36 spoke, don't worry about it, just buy it. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
jim
a Weekend Warrior
from amherst,ma
Date Reviewed: October 24, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
technical singletrack | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
Amazing. Very smmooth and rugged. Absolutely maintenance free. | | Weaknesses: |
None | | Similar Products Used: |
Shimano stx/lx, specialized | | Bike Setup: |
Cannondale - rigid. | | Bottom Line: | I have a set of Bullseye hubs which I purchased in 1989. I abused these hubs on a very regular basis until last year, when I finally bought a new full-suspension Cannondale. Not only didn't I have any problems with the hubs, I NEVER once serviced them. Obviously that's a bad idea...but the point is they still work great. They were never babied either, spending much time submerged in water and mud. My new Shimano hubs sheared off some internal metal within nine months. The broken metal fragments almost wore completely through the axle before I got the bike home. Fortunately Shimano warrantied most of the cost...but I know what I'm replacing the Shimano's with when they break again. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jonny
a Weekend Warrior
from Oz Toowoomba Queensland
Date Reviewed: September 5, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
All over | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Bottom Line: | WoooW what a kick arse hub!!! I have only a rear at the moment and what can I say these things RULE the roost, They may be cluster v's cassete but the y perform soo well It doesnt matter, If your are worried about bendind the axel dont be, Bullseye have only ever seen 2 of their 17 mm alloy axels bend and never one snap, Also NO spoke snappage!!! this is because of the 3 piece design (the body and 2 flages) Because the flanges are made separate to the body the spoke holes can be made smoother on the inside this mean less spokes snapping, Shimano Doesnt even use this! Also the bearings is this thing are awsome!! Totally sealed and HAssel free!!!(you can also buy replacment bearings at hardware/bearing centers.Get the bolts with your hubs, the stiffen up your ride SO much, THE cost is $89.00 U.S I think!! Better than anything I have ever used!!!(I also got the hub second hand!! Its already about 3 years old and still like new!!!
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Submitted by
Wayne
a Cross-Country Rider
from McCall, ID
Date Reviewed: August 3, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Loon Lake, ID | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
smoooooth
customer service
easy to work on | | Weaknesses: |
a little play at rim | | Similar Products Used: |
LX, XT, XTR, Bontrager, Campy,GT, Revcore, Specialized,... | | Bike Setup: |
Homegrown XT HT w/ Englund equipped Judy | | Bottom Line: | I've used this hub (front only) for 12 years on several bikes and wheelsets. I always come back to it when the new hubs fail! I used Bullseyes BMX racing before that. The play at the rim takes a while to get used to, but Bullseye is adamant that there is no side loading on the bearings this way. I use the allen bolts to help stiffen up the Judy too. I'm surprised to see someone else using them because they're kinda hard to find. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dave Masino
a Cross-Country Rider
from Seattle, WA
Date Reviewed: July 1, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Open to bikes | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
Easy to service
Smooth
Great customer service | | Weaknesses: |
None I found | | Similar Products Used: |
Phil Wood
Shimano XT, LX | | Bike Setup: |
Fat Chance Yo Eddy, Full XT, Manitou 5SX fork, Mavic 217/517 | | Bottom Line: | I've been using the Bullseye hub on the front for 3 years now and so far, so good. It's running smooth and has held up over the years. I took it apart the other day to service the bearings and it wasn't a problem at all. You really don't have to take the whole thing apart to service the bearings, but I like to tinker. Also, Bullseye customer service is excellent. I called them up to make sure I was doing this right, and the person who answered the phone was very helpful. I'd buy another...if I ever need to. | | Overall Rating: |
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