Frederic Schornstein
TXL Racing
It wouls be nice, but I dont think they will do it. At the end of the day they want to make money (rightfully so) and they would lower their sales. Currently you have to pay at least 450€ for the base and the cheapest rim the formula costs 180€ as the formula is around for quite a while they should make a good profit with selling it. If they position the HUB around that price point or offer a pure HUB below 180€ they wont make a lot of money, because the most complicated part is the HUB itself. The button boxes should be really cheap to produces, so they always sell it as a full package. Of course a cheaper HUB could lead to people only buying a base and the cheap HUB, on which they make less profit than their other rims.I'm still wondering if they can offer all the modular parts separate. For people who have proper custom rims they won't need all the modular stuff, only a mechanism to bolt onto. I still have a sparco wheel and a load of buttons lying around, but 250 EUR is a bit steep for the universal hub if you ask me..
I would like your idea as well, but from a financial POV I wouldnt do it if I were them and looking at their reported sales and profit. They could really do with more profit. Over the last few years they bearly had any profit.