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Old 01-28-23, 02:39 PM
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Is This Hub Race Still Serviceable?

I finally got around to repacking the bearings on my 2011 Surly Long Haul Trucker’s fifth set of wheels. The hubs are Shimano XTs with easily 50K miles on them and ridden through a lot of rain and other bad conditions – never touched until today. Front bearings, cups and cones were perfect. Back non-drive side the same. The drive side cone is what I’d call marred in a few places – not pitted. Either way, I was going to replace that. But the bigger issue is the drive side race is not perfect like the others. It doesn’t look horrible but there is wear. So, my question is how bad should the race be before giving up on the hubs? Bad lighting but the pics might give some idea of the condition:



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