Industry Nine Tour

Our friends over at Mountain Bike by 198 took a tour of the Industry Nine Plant and wrote up a great article on it. Here is some of it:

Friday afternoon, we had the pleasure of taking a tour of the Industry Nine facilities. It is really impressive to see how the component parts make it from raw material to finished wheels.

Walking into the front door, you come straight into the final assembly and order staging area of the plant. You can see by the pictures below they stock your spokes and hubs in white boxes and the rims go on the other wall. Finished prototypes are hung on one side of the room and the finished boxed wheelsets are stacked all over the place. It is also here where you find the axle stock and the displays of the 6 pawl, 120 point engagement drive that you see below. At all times, there are 3 pawls engaging the ring drive that gives the Industry Nine hubs their trademark engagement.

They also have some great pictures from their time there including this one with thousands of dollars worth of colored hubs just staring back at you.

Click here for the full write-up.