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Are Loud Freehubs a Thing Now?

Old 07-12-22, 06:56 AM
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Originally Posted by koala logs
I'm thinking of using wet lube on it but worried the lube would just run out the the seal and mess up the wheel.
I'd just use the lube the manufacturer recommends. It'll work a lot better.
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Old 07-12-22, 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Badger6
Sarcasm and snark seem to miss with you.

Good effort at recovery, I guess.
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Old 07-12-22, 07:03 AM
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Kinda makes the joke pointless when the audience doesn't get it.
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Old 07-12-22, 08:02 AM
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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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Old 07-12-22, 08:10 AM
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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.
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Old 07-12-22, 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by sjanzeir
And why?
Yes, because...well, I think Freddy Mercury of the rock band Queen explained it best when he sang,

"Buddy, you're a boy, make a big noise

Playing in the street, gonna be a big man someday..."
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Originally Posted by Badger6
Kinda makes the joke pointless when the audience doesn't get it.
If the audience doesn't get it, it might not be their fault.
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Old 07-12-22, 10:10 AM
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But which ones make the best music?

My vote goes for "RIGINA!" Freehub or Freewheel...
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Old 07-12-22, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by beng1
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.
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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All noisy forms of transport are an abomination. Same as people, now that I think about it.
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Originally Posted by sjanzeir
And why?
They always have been for everyone but peasants.
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