What is a quick engagement hub?
Trials are a precision sport. Perfect, dead precision. Some riders do not think that regular 16 engagement points hubs are precise enough as such hubs have too much slack, too much wasted leg motion before they click — the sound of hub finally engaging. You’ll genereally use them if you’re still a begginner or have no money to buy expensive hubs, although it’s not so important to have QE hubs for playriding or generally having fun. Wasted leg motion and low precision are two of the few reasons why bike industry finally manufactured some quick engagement hubs (none of them was actually meant for trials in the beginning). They had 36 engagement points (like the legendary old Shimano LX silent clutch hub), 48 (Sun ABBAH (Another Big Bad Ass Hub)), 72 (Chris King Classic/Disc) and even 120 (Trueprecision’s Stealth silent-clutch). There are hubs with more exotic engagement systems, like the one patented by Slovakian RB Design’s Tractor TR32 that guarantee simultaneous engagement of all rol
