Normandy Luxe Competition _ earlier style hubset
The Luxe Competition hubs with the gold foil labels on the barrels preceeded those with the red labels. But, the distinctions run a little more deeply than that simple comparison.
Look at the dust covers of the two versions. You may notice in this photo that the ends of the hub shells appear to have the inner bearing cups completely sealed over by the smoothly finished aluminum "caps". I really do not know how they did this. There do not appear to be any seams at all. But the hubs obviously required steel bearing cups to be fitted inside at some point during the manufacturing process. On the later version of these hubs, there are clearly defined red plastic covers press fitted to the ends of the hub shells.
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Normandy Luxe Competition _ earlier style hubset
The Luxe Competition hubs with the gold foil labels on the barrels preceeded those with the red labels. But, the distinctions run a little more deeply than that simple comparison.
Look at the dust covers of the two versions. You may notice in this photo that the ends of the hub shells appear to have the inner bearing cups completely sealed over by the smoothly finished aluminum "caps". I really do not know how they did this. There do not appear to be any seams at all. But the hubs obviously required steel bearing cups to be fitted inside at some point during the manufacturing process. On the later version of these hubs, there are clearly defined red plastic covers press fitted to the ends of the hub shells.
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