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[Closed] single speed is destroying my freehub

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I appear to have killed my Formula freehub today after giving it quite a battering today at cwmcarn. I have been running a fat bottomed sprocket on it and until today it has been in service running a 10 speed cassette.

Is it normal to destroy an admittedly cheap freehub so easily whilst running a single gear?

Do I need to shut up and by a white industries freewheel for my screw-on dmr hub?


 
Posted : 26/05/2014 5:45 pm
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How tight are you running your chain?


 
Posted : 26/05/2014 6:29 pm
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Your freehub is ruining your single speeding, make haste to the Womens Institute and never falter again.


 
Posted : 26/05/2014 6:33 pm
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Have you destroyed the splines or the internals?


 
Posted : 26/05/2014 6:48 pm
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Internals rather than the freehub body. Chain is not too tight at all...


 
Posted : 26/05/2014 7:16 pm

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