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LEGENDARY HUB MAKER PHIL WOOD PASSES AWAY AGED 84
« on: March 19, 2010, 08:20 PM »
Hub-Maker Phil Wood Passes Away

BAXTER, IA (BRAIN)—Phil Wood, the man responsible for sealed hubs and bottom brackets, died this week on his farm in Baxter, Iowa. He was 84.

He started the Phil Wood Company in 1971 as primarily a hub maker, though he offered other components. He sold the business to Peter Enright and a group of investors in 1991.

“I feel so lucky to have talked with him about a week before he passed away, and he mentioned again that he was so lucky to sell the business when he did,” said Enright, Phil Wood Company’s president.

“We talked off and on over the years, usually to catch up on news about his friends in the bike business. But he was quite happy to return to the farm after selling the business to help raise his granddaughter,” Enright added.

Wood was a problem-solver working at Food Machinery Corporation. Had he not been bothered chasing bearings for a hub he was rebuilding for his daughter, sealed-bearing hubs might have taken years to hit the bike market, Enright noted.

“He was complaining to Spence Wolf about why no one offered a sealed bearing hub and Wolf told him to make his own hub. A little while later he asked Spence how many he should make. It took Spence a bit to remember what he was talking about. He said make 50 hubs and the business was launched,” Enright said.

Wood’s family is deciding on funeral arrangements at this time.

“I’m glad he and I were able to have that last chat. He was a little bothered he wasn’t as ambulatory as he once was but he was content to move on,” Enright said.

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Re: LEGENDARY HUB MAKER PHIL WOOD PASSES AWAY AGED 84
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2010, 08:42 PM »
sad loss of a true legend RIP...

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Re: LEGENDARY HUB MAKER PHIL WOOD PASSES AWAY AGED 84
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2010, 09:34 PM »
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Re: LEGENDARY HUB MAKER PHIL WOOD PASSES AWAY AGED 84
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2010, 09:39 PM »
a sad lose, r.i.p phil.

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Re: LEGENDARY HUB MAKER PHIL WOOD PASSES AWAY AGED 84
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2010, 09:41 PM »
Simply sad...    R.I.P.

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Re: LEGENDARY HUB MAKER PHIL WOOD PASSES AWAY AGED 84
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2010, 09:59 PM »
Products to be proud of and a bloody good innings. RIP
Why oh why do I still buy kids bikes!

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Re: LEGENDARY HUB MAKER PHIL WOOD PASSES AWAY AGED 84
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2010, 10:08 PM »
Products to be proud of and a bloody good innings. RIP



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Re: LEGENDARY HUB MAKER PHIL WOOD PASSES AWAY AGED 84
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2010, 10:42 PM »
RIP  :angel:

Great products and a great guy  :4_17_5:

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Re: LEGENDARY HUB MAKER PHIL WOOD PASSES AWAY AGED 84
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2010, 11:59 PM »
R.I.P Phil Wood... :(

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Re: LEGENDARY HUB MAKER PHIL WOOD PASSES AWAY AGED 84
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2010, 01:26 AM »
RIP


Better to crash and burn than fade away

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