Corvus Cycles
Corvus Alaskan SL Rear Hub
Corvus Alaskan SL Hubs
The most reliable high engagement hubs available for cold weather riding. 6 Pawl freehub with low resistance cold weather grease.
Product Description
The symmetrical hub was created right here at Corvus. Some industry folks said it couldn’t be done (back in the day). Not only could it be done, we had already done it! Our hubs deliver the best possible performance and reliability.
When looking at modern bike wheels, the gears (cassette) take up a considerable portion of the width, creating what’s known as “dish.” This means the drive side spokes are virtually vertical, while the non drive spokes are angled outwards, which necessitates a different spoke tension laterally. With the Corvus symmetrical hub, all spokes are the same length, and under the same tension!
Now on version three of our Alaska Edition hubs, we have reduced weight and drag, while increasing stiffness, durability, and engagement. We use high quality, low friction Japanese bearings with extreme temperature grease rated to -40°C for proven performance in extreme cold. We have also updated the freehub bodies to have 3 rows of bearings to distribute stress evenly with today’s wide range cassettes and to increase strength and durability in all conditions.
- Front available in 15x150mm
- Rear available in 12x197mm
- SRAM, Shimano XD & Microspline freehub options
- 6 pawl – 72 points of engagement
- The original symmetrical fat bike hubs, spoke lengths are same left and right, front and rear, creating the strongest, most well balanced wheelset possible
- 3 rows of bearings in the freehub bodies for added strength for today’s wide range cassettes.
- Japanese low contact, -40° rated bearings.
- 32 hole
- Color: Black
Why Buy from FBC!
Our history with fat biking!
We didn’t come up with the idea but we definitely followed along, closely. The quest to not give up riding in the winter, which is long in our country, began early. The search for the widest tire we could fit on std 26” then 29”. More volume and tire width always made sense as was watching the conditions for the perfect days that would bring a hard snow base to our trails.
Not being engineers, we watched each year anticipating what would evolve to improve the experience. We come from the old school of bike evolution, when bikes didn’t come fully tricked and adding your own flare to your ride was one of the best parts of the journey. Fat Bikes not only make evolutionary sense, but when frames and parts came available it rejuvenated that love for building something original.
Now the fat bike experience can be many things to different riders from dedicated winter bike to year round ripper or bike packing across open country. We’re here to help you discover more on two fat tires wherever you ride in Canada. We take pride in our work to build each customer something they will enjoy each ride 12 months of the year.
Shipping
Wheelsets, Frames, Complete Bikes, and Skin Skis are subject to an OVERSIZE Surcharge.
We ship on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
If we receive your order by noon on these days we can often get your order out same day or it will go out the next shipping day with the method you have selected.
We will always try to ship orders out as quickly as possible.
Domestic orders are shipped Canada Post, UPS or Purolator depending on the item and your selected service and when your order ships you will receive tracking details via email address provided.
If you require an alternate shipping option or for Remote Area orders please contact us prior to placing your order and we will provide a shipping quote.
Returns
Our policy is you may return an item(s) which are unused and in original packaging up to 15 days after receiving them.
This does not include Clearance items which are final sale. Please make your return request through email (eh@fatbikes.ca) noting the item (s) you would like to return.
Those items must be in their original packaging and in the very condition you received them.
Please note that we have a ‘Restocking Fee’ of 15% for any and all products returned if you had received free shipping with your order. If your original shipping and handling was a higher rate than 15% of the purchase that will be the charge instead.
So please insure proper compatibility before proceeding with an order. You are responsible for the full cost of shipping your return back to us.
There may be certain items that are Non-Refundable and cannot be returned such as various wearables/underwear
All Clearance items are FINAL SALE.
