As you can see on the pictures my freewheel and hub body have been damaged.
The hub body has ridges on the bottom and the freewheel has been grinded down.
The room for the pawls has been grinded out and the pawls have been getting out of the freewheel and grinding with the body which caused the ridges.
Now the problem is:
– do I buy a freewheel from aliexpress because the original ones are too expensive for me for a spare part
– or do I buy a completely new hub like DT350 or something.
what should I do????? NEEED HELLPPPP
by jestemcwelem
8 Comments
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With how bad the ratchet ring inside the hub body looks you need a whole new hub. If the 120$ freehub body is too expensive I would start looking for a used cheap complete wheel.
Have you reached out to Hope? They usually stand behind their products and will get you taken care of.
Again, this comes up every couple weeks now. I’m a Hope user since 2006 and one thing I would never touch are the rear hubs because of the soft freehubs around the pawl pivot areas that goes back to at least the ProII era and has never been beefed up with the only option, if available, to go with the steel freehub. If you’re lucky, the freehub just deforms enough under the complex loading to touch the toothed ring and make marks and Hope used to replace them. You’ll actually see microcracks in the freehub ano. Adding more pawls still didn’t fix this and Hope will still say “we’ve never seen this before”, despite this happening for literally 20 years now. Some here and only here will try to make up excuses about bearings and such, but it happens on brand new hubs.
Why is it happening? It pretty much is a weight and total load issue and it’s obvious the Pro hubs are still kind of designed around a weight limit they don’t specify that is probably the old school 180 pounds which was a soft recommendation for the Pro II when it originally came out and then they quietly lifted it when it seemed like the hubs were surviving.
If Hope still makes the steel freehub, you need to go with that. If not, change brands to DT Swiss, Mavic with the ID360 hubs (similar to DT Swiss), or Spank Hex. I have all three after I was done with Hope’s hubs.
+1 for speak to Hope. Their products aren’t the most dependable but they’re usually very good at fixing things when they go wrong.
350 is a better hub in terms of durability, I have DT hubs that are old enough to vote, you just feed them an occasional bearing and it’ll last until next time they reinvent hub standards for no reason except to make indestructible hubs obsolete. But it’s a big hassle and expense.
Try warranty first.
DT Swiss 350 cause Temu is just a waste of money
Have you emailed Hope? They have the best customer support I have ever experienced (in any industry).