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My freehub seized at the end of a long ride the other week - leaving me riding what was a pretty dicey fixed wheel.
It's a tesla evo - I bought the wheels second hand and have been riding them for a few years - I just rebuilt them into a set of B+ wheels recently.
I stripped it down, and it is pretty obvious what has happened:
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A tooth had come off the ratchet and had jammed behind a pawl (there are 5 or 6 pawls), keeping the wheel engaged.
I removed the broken tooth - all the pawls are fine, no other damage. Reassembled and it feels fine. I reckon it'll be fine for a while - most of the time all five pawls will be engaged (there are 72 PoEs), and at the worse, four will be? Or am I going to die a horrible death? Freehub bodies are £50, so not the end of the world, but I've been spending a bit too much on bikes recently...