u/carlew

I bought these with a complete bike for $100. I'm in the middle of a bearing replacement and decided to polish them. These are the Ti Cassette rear and Ti Tracker front. It's pretty wild that they are about 30 years old and they still look beautiful, and they perform incredibly well.

As far as I know, these are the first hubs they White Industries ever sold. Dare I say they don't make them like they used to.

A few years back I got extremely lucky and bought a 90's GT Karakoram for $100 that had a wheel set with these hubs laced to Mavic M 231 CD rims. I eventually sold the bike and kept the wheel set. I disassembled the wheel set and I am hoping to build a new set with these.

The hubs are both 32H TI Front and Ti Cassette from 1994-2001 and 1992-1995 respectively, confirmed by White Industries, and they also told me that the freehub body is not available from them and I would need to purchase a used, good condition replacement if needed, but I am not concerned with the cassette wear on the freehub. I have already replaced all 4 bearings on the rear hub, purchased from WI, and I have more on the way for the front, and I also managed to find replacement pawl springs as the old (I'm assuming original) springs were very worn out.

My concern is the age of these hubs, as they are the first hubs they ever manufactured, as well as is the gouges that can be seen in the hub flanges from the spokes. I have built 6 wheelsets myself, including one with modern White Industries hubs, but previously I have only used new hubs. Should I be concerned with the damage in the flanges on both of these hubs, considering they are 30+ year old aluminum/titanium? Or would you send it and build a wheel set with these? I am planning on only using them for commuting and light gravel riding on a 1995 Trek 970.

Edit: Bonus question, if anyone knows of a good reliable way to polish the hub shells without damaging them I would love to hear it.

Here are some photos of SOME of my cards from my childhood collection for engagement, here is a link to my Collectr portfolio ( https://app.getcollectr.com/showcase/profile/12e7c55a-2584-4a0f-af67-6b7ce20e0c68 ) which again is only the best cards in my opinion and I have a lot more vintage bulk and older cards that likely have more value, I'm getting tired of inputting all of my cards. I have done my best to assess the condition of my cards and input that appropriately into Collectr.

I have just gotten back into the hobby however I am nearly financially destitute and could desperately use the cash, but I might be able to hold out a bit longer. I absolutely DO NOT have enough money/time right now to pay for any grading so I would only be able to sell raw, and I have never used eBay before so I would assume if I started selling cards on there I would need to price cards low to get more sales/reputation before I sell at market rate for the condition my cards are in.

I believe that I don't really have any grail cards, and most of my collection is LP/MP, but I'm also well aware of the rarity/value of the EX era cards, and I have a lot of stamped cards from those sets as I was a big collector from ~2002 to 2008. Any advice about how to sell, whether to hold or unload some/most of my cards etc is appreciated.