We’ve been getting a lot of inquiries for diagrams of our Rear Elite MTB hubs. Although we recommend taking your hub to your local bike shop (they will have correct hub bearing presses), if you don’t have easy access, above is the exploded internals of our hub. Pictured above is […]
When it comes to choosing a spline drive sprocket for your race rig, Profile Racing offers four options. While we’re getting into that, let us give you an additional brief history of our spline driven, race gears. The first race specific spline drive sprocket Profile produced was the Elite, 19mm […]
When it comes to choosing a spline drive sprocket for your street, park, dirt, or flat rig, Profile Racing offers three options based almost solely on aesthetics. While we’re getting into that, let us give you an additional brief history of our spline driven, freestyle gears. The first spline drive […]
So you have a 14mm axle in your Profile Mini, Totem, Elite or Madera V-2 Rear hub and want to switch it to 3/8? Let us guide you. Considering the Profile/Madera hub shell bearings are exactly the same for 3/8 and 14mm, all you need is the 3/8 axle conversion […]
What sets the Profile Elite Cranks apart from the rest? Well, let’s get to brass tax… The features of Profile Elite cranks: – Handcrafted in the USA from 4340 heat-treated chromoly for maximum strength and stiffness. – Features a standard 22mm, 6LV4 Titanium Spindle. – The Crank set includes a […]
Long chainring bolts VS. Short chainring bolts, or why use long and short together? Long chainring bolts are primarily used for thicker gears and spiders, however the short chainring bolts are mostly found on complete bikes using a thinner spider and chainring.When you use the long 8mm fronts and […]
https://youtu.be/artPyS-ggro A very common question we get here in the factory: What is the difference between Madera and Profile product? The answer is actually quite simple: aesthetics. There’s quite a bit of crossover within both product line’s essential parts. For instance, the same spline inserts are used for both Madera […]
The eternal debate of Titanium versus Chromo. When to, and when not to? What do we recommend? An overview of the material. Our Chromo 19mm and 22mm GDH Spindles, Hub Bolts, 14mm and 3/8 Inner Hubs Axles, and GDH Crank Bolts are 4140 “Cold Drawn Annealed” steel. Our Chromo […]
Profile’s warranty policy often gets buried in our website. We wanted to bring it to the forefront for our Tech Tip #24. Here’s all you need to know! Thanks for the continued support. PROFILE RACING RACE CRANK LIFETIME LIMITED WARRANTY Profile Racing chromoly crankarms and chromoly spindles carry a Lifetime […]
Two Years ago we met up with Dillon Leeper to discuss his advantages of using the Profile ZCoaster. Now, two years later, we did a follow up and asked, overall, what do you like most about the hub? Check it and see… This will seal up our three part series […]
We are taking precautions to protect our employees and follow CDC and state guidelines. In the meantime, our machine shop is still running, we're here to assist you and we'll be shipping product to help support bike shops during this difficult time.
