OK well off topic but if you didnt already know we live in the most beautiful country in the  world - New Zealand. I just had a weekend R&R  with the fam in Queenstown near the bottom of the South Island where much of Lord of the Rings was shot. That shits not computor generated, I woke up to this every morning from my hotel apartment - its good to be alive. Took my 2 boys (7 and 10) snow boarding for the first time. It rocks being a Dad, 2 little fellas ripped up the spags on the learner slopes, no lessons required. Cant wait till next year. As soon as you have bought a hub you had better start saving for a trip to NZ, hit me up for some hook ups....

Drive Side

• 3 x 78mm equal sized, equally spaced flanges. Stretched as wide as is possible while allowing a 42mm chain line. When built, is perfectly symetrical with zero dishing. The basis of my international design registration that mainly serves to inflate my ego.
• 1.5mm lip inside the iso cog mount centers the cog without relying on the bolts. A short coming on the MTB hub conversions ive been doing. Even a tiny amount of slop around the bolts would result in varying chain tension - no more.

Non Drive Side.

• Large holes between the spoke holes serve to allow safe passage for the center spokes through and paste the far side flange. Refer prototype 001, after many hours of scratching balls, couldnt even lace it! That was a bad night.
• Sealed bearing seat 9mm deep for whopping big 30mm in diameter x 7mm wide fully sealed, non contact bearings that can be easily replaced. The extra 2mm leaves a recess for the bearing bush to sit inside and provide a nice seamless flowing line down to the lock nut.

A kind of pilot drill first drops in and leaves a indent for the 2.5mm spoke drill.

Even this tiny drill penetrates like a knife through butter. a bit different to my rattly old drill press.

Bamn, one side finished in about 1/60th of the time it takes me to drill a prototype by hand. The hub stays put, the drill head moving around the hub and swapping out drill pieces quicker than i can find the chuck key.

Shit, hope someone wants to buy one or two..... off to the anodiser.

Looks like i'm not alone when it comes to the advantages of three flanges. Reynolds build some of the most trick wheels in existance. This is their new RZR used by some of pro peleton already. Guess the haters better quickly let Reynolds and the riders that rate them know they obviously have no idea what they are doing. Notice how close the center flange is to the drive side due to heavily dished road hubs. The outside spokes are all radial by the looks, keen to try this as a radial pattern supposedly makes for better lateral stiffness. Wish i had an auto clave to cook up some carbon crazyness....

These rims are seriously strong! If your a big fatty or like to smash wheels get onto the Dodici lads now. Jacob and Alex are a pleasure to deal with - how come Italians are so cool?

Finally had a chance to lace up 003 for Chris which is an neccessarily complicated 32h pattern neccessitating a crows foot layout in order to get 12/8/12 across the flanges. Looks cool but for simplicity production hubs are all 36h, 12/12/12 across the flanges which means they can all be 2 x cross as well for extra goodness. Think we will make the front all radial eh Chris? I'm still learning how best to lace these suckers but so far so good, the best tip being lace it fully but tension up as a 24h first till its perfect (easy with Dodici) then wind some tension into the center flange spokes - leaving those spokes slightly softer tension than the outside spokes. I'll get onto a proper lacing guide soon.

Welcome to GodsCogs, not possible if it wasnt for 2 solid dudes, Chris and Brendan who have for whatever reason commited there own time and skills into this project without even hinting after compensation or recognition. I'll take some time and find the right spot to talk about each others input when i work out how this thing rolls…

Does this thing spell check, coz i suc @ that.




I have no idea where this journey will end, either tears of joy or just tears - this is life and i'm here to max mine out. Hang in tight we have the intial production batch of hubs rolling off the CNC machine as we speak. I expect inside 2 weeks i will have some finished hubs all packaged and ready to be punished. Get back with a comment re prefered anodised colours and finishes. I'm thinking black, silver, polished a give in but we can also have things satin or glossy - watcha think? We will try to keep some raw on hand for something custom if thats your gig. Meantime i've got the last couple of handmade hubs to get laced for a couple of worthy 
pedallers in the South Island. I'll chuck a couple of pics up later 
this weekend. Keep an eye on the 'About' page for some product detail.

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Here's a tease, prototype #002 which was actually a 32h, 8/16/8 spokes. the prod units are all 36h, 12/12/12.

The site is live, please stand by as it's still getting built, things will be added, the hubs are just about to come out of production but you can still show your interest in the hubs by contacting us. So stay tuned and we'll see you soon.