Are Loud Freehubs a Thing Now?
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Kinda makes the joke pointless when the audience doesn't get it.
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I have a Chris King (R45), and two White Industries (MI5 and XMR Boost) none of these hubs are particularly loud though louder than any Shimano or Campy hub I've ridden
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There is no good reason any ratcheting mechanism would be noisy. It would be either from poor engineering, or because someone purposely designed or altered it to make it noisy because they need the attention their mommy did not give them when they were nursing.
The Sun and Shimano and Sachs freewheels on my old ten and twelve-speed bikes are very silent, so the engineering has existed for many decades to make them so. If the ratchet in my hub was as loud as the one in a late-model Specialized I was following Saturday in the TT, I would be inclined to take it apart and see what was wrong with it, or if it was running dry without lube.
The Sun and Shimano and Sachs freewheels on my old ten and twelve-speed bikes are very silent, so the engineering has existed for many decades to make them so. If the ratchet in my hub was as loud as the one in a late-model Specialized I was following Saturday in the TT, I would be inclined to take it apart and see what was wrong with it, or if it was running dry without lube.
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But which ones make the best music?
My vote goes for "RIGINA!" Freehub or Freewheel...
My vote goes for "RIGINA!" Freehub or Freewheel...
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Well, if it had a Roval wheelset on it, it had DT Swiss internals. If it had the 180 or 240 internals, there is no pawl mechanism. Just two ratchets, one sprung so it can “freewheel", and the free hub ratchet is loud because it has 18 (20°), 36 (10°), or 54 (6.67°) engagement points. They don’t make noise if you’re pedaling. And, they don’t take a lot of lube either, in fact too much and they won’t engage properly. A light even coating on both ratchet faces and they’re good to go…and they sound great.
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