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my wifes bike has Halo vapour wheels. rear has a superdrive freehub. it is on it's way out. makes a loud bang every so often. i removed the cassette, and there is some play in the freehub and i can feel it missing now and again.
it is 5 years old, so owes us nothing.
my question is, can i replace it with a non superdrive version, and less than half the price ?
anyone have any idea ?
cheers.
The cheaper ones may be soft alloy if they are anything like the Chosen freehub I had which I had to bin after getting chewed up by a steel cassette. It was very very similar to a Supadrive freehub which I considered for a replacement. I did wonder if made in the same Taiwan factory as Chosen are one of the outfits making them for other brands.
Apparently so. Although I haven't done it myself! Tredz and Merlin sell the RSP/Pro Build version. It is as mentioned a pretty soft metal.
The worst thing about that freehub is the fact they don't sell the part that wears out, a few pence worth of tiny piss pot flappy seal!
https://www.merlincycles.com/pro-build-chosen-9-10-speed-shimano-freehub-body-119310.html
Check the drive ring isn't trashed before buying a new freehub as it has really fine teeth, 120 points!
What usually happens is water gets in because the flappy seal is worn and it corrodes the pawl springs so 1 or 2 or all 3 pawls don't spring back fast enough, hence power get's transferred through less pawls than it should. Add some heavy duty cranking on 1 or 2 pawls and you can imagine what happens!
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Check the drive ring isn’t trashed before buying a new freehub as it has really fine teeth, 120 points!
mate, i think that is the problem. if i spin the body back and forward like back peddling and then forward, it bangs/cracks loudly every so often. this happens when my wife is riding too.
Check it first because it can be quite noisy when it's only engaging 1 or 2 pawls at a time. When all 3 hold down it just spins and there is no drive at all until a pawl bites.
The hub and freewheel bearings might be buggered as well! It's a smash the lot out job and actually quite easy. Obviously a new freehub has new bearings in it so less to do!
a new custom rear wheel from Spa cycles is only £120.
and i cant be arsed with spannering no more so that may be the way to go and only a bit more expense.
thanks for your time mate.
No probs do what's best for you or get's you sorted fastest 🙂
Yep, I ended up just going with a new wheel from Spokesman Wheels. Stans rim, novatec hub and sapim spokes - very nice!