Nomu Lab Diary

The ONYX Hub

Continuing from the story about the ONYX hub.
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Come to think of it...

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DT...

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Nope, that wasn't it

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It's inside this case

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According to this document

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So the first model of the 240 was from the Fugi grade!
But that's not really important right now anyway

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↑This is it. The Black Onyx
Unlike Orbea's Onyx, this is "an Onyx hub," so
regarding ONYX Racing,
the reason Japanese distributors had to call it "O-N-Y-X" seems
even stronger.

There's Formula—an Italian disc brake maker and
a Taiwan manufacturer that mainly makes budget-class hubs—
but these two companies have absolutely no connection to each other.
And both produce disc brake hubs, and while
their logos and typefaces differ,
both have "FORMULA" printed on the hub shell.
However, in this case there doesn't seem to be any particular dispute over it.

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