WHITE INDUSTRIES TRACK HIGH FLANGE FRONT HUB

Design and construction

The tall flange shortens the spoke and steepens its angle, which is what gives a track wheel its directness under a standing start.

White Industries has been doing this for nearly fifty years, and every component is designed, machined, finished, assembled and inspected in the one building. On a fixed wheel, where the hub takes drive and braking through the same threads, that consistency is not a romantic detail.

A front hub is a bearing carrier with flanges, and that is the whole job of the front track: two sealed bearings on a stiff axle, end caps for your fork's standard, and flanges spaced to give the spokes a good bracing angle on the rotor side. There is nothing to engage and nothing to swap. Everything written about freehubs and engagement applies to the rear hub only; what you get up front is the same shell quality and the same seals without any of the moving parts.

How it rides

A White Industries track wheel is stiff, because tall flanges shorten the spokes and stiffen the wheel, and it is permanent, because the bearings are sealed and everything is rebuildable. It is the hub we build for velodrome bikes, fixed-gear street bikes and anyone who wants a polished high-flange hub that will still be running in thirty years.

On the road or the trail the front hub's job is to disappear: spin freely, keep water out, and hold the flanges still so the wheel tracks where you point it. The front track does that with the same bearings and seals as the rear and none of the rear's complexity, and because a front wheel carries less load and no torque it stays true longer than the rear on the same rim. When the rear finally needs a look, the front usually does not.

Specifications

This listing

This is the rim-brake version: Bolt On 9x100mm, 24h, 28h, 32h, 36h drilling, about 223g, in polished, black. Same internals and flanges as every other track; only the mount and axle differ.

This is the rim-brake track, with no rotor mount at all: a lighter, simpler shell for road, track and classic frames that stop on the rim. It builds into the lightest wheel the model can make and it is the version to choose for a rim-brake bike; the disc versions of the same hub have their own listings.

Sizes, fit and compatibility

J-bend spokes in any gauge; we build most track wheels with DT Champion or Sapim Race and Laser spokes and brass nipples.

It pairs naturally with the Velocity Deep V, H Plus Son Archetype and TB14, and any track rim in the catalog that matches its drilling. Pick track or fixed-gear as your bike type in the configurator and it recommends a spoke count and lacing pattern.

Build it into a wheel

This hub is live in our Custom Wheel Program for track and road single-speed builds. Start a build with the White Industries Track High Flange Front Hub and the configurator opens with this exact hub pinned at the top of the White Industries list — you choose the rest of the parts and it validates every combination as you go.

Building it at ProWheelBuilder

White Industries makes the track; ProWheelBuilder is an independent custom wheel builder in Georgia and not the manufacturer. Every track wheel we build gets spokes cut from the measured ERD of the rim, staged tensioning with a gauge, stress relief and a final true before it ships.

In the configurator you will only see parts that fit this drilling; combinations that are not made are struck through, and the price updates as you pick.