Okay so I have a late 90s Cannondale that I've built up with almost a full xtr m960 groupset and the last thing I'd like to get for the build is a set of of m960 hubs.
The issue I have is that the only hub set I can find on eBay has a plastic freehub body. (According to the seller the previous owner replaced the titanium one they usually come with).
My question is how big of an issue will this be and if it's going to be major, does anyone know if there are modern, metal freehub body replacements that will fit the hubs?
In my mind, the individual sprockets of the cassette would almost immediately dig themselves into the plastic much how they do on aluminum bodies over time.
Would the solution to be to acquire a cassette with a spider and slides onto the freehub body as a single block? (I'm using friction shifters so it can be an 11 or 12 speed cassette)
Any suggestions are much appreciated.
by Kind_Mycologist_7989
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Could you send the listing for the hubs? I have never seen or heard of a plastic freehub body.
Seller’s mistaken, no two ways about it. Even aluminum is kinda too soft (see: all the various anti-bite technologies out there) for the HG design; plastic, of any variety or production method, wouldn’t last a full race day.
The pics just look like a steel freehub to me.
Somebody replaced the titanium freehub body with a standard steel body…..No way it’s plastic, but if you pull off the ti freehub from a 960 then you have gotten rid of the defining bit of that generation of hubs.