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Freehub is slipping (Shimano 105 10 speed road)

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  • 07-10-2020 4:18pm
    #1
    Roadtoad
    Registered Users Posts: 751 ✭✭✭


    When the freehub starts slipping, is it usually a replacement job or is a strip/lubricate job worth anything?
    There seems to be a myriad of options on some of the sites, and I was surprised that it will cost north of €60. Is there a simple selection? Is a salvage piece silly?


    The bike is a Giant Defy. The hub has about 50000 km on it, its been through a few cassettes. I've recently bought the Aldi toolkit and am anxious to start messing with things!


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    ninoon
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭ninoon


    Hi, you say Shimano 105 10 speed for the cassette, what brand or model is the wheel.


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    Roadtoad
    Registered Users Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Roadtoad


    The wheel is a Shimano R500.


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    ninoon
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭ninoon


    If you have a casette removal tool and a chain whip it is an easy enough task to carefully remove the freehub body without losing pawls and springs (youtube) clean and lubricate. But at 50000 km on the wheel!!!


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    km991148
    Registered Users Posts: 4,275 ✭✭✭km991148


    ninoon wrote: »
    . But at 50000 km on the wheel!!!

    Ye, I am more surprised the r500s rims are holding up.. I guess mine were around that when one day the wheel just collapsed under me!

    (Edit, in fairness the wheel had been buckled and straightened a few time with Dublin commuting..)


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    [Deleted User]
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    With that mileage i'd be also looking the rims for wear.


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    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,350 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    Roadtoad wrote: »
    When the freehub starts slipping, is it usually a replacement job or is a strip/lubricate job worth anything?
    There seems to be a myriad of options on some of the sites, and I was surprised that it will cost north of €60. Is there a simple selection? Is a salvage piece silly?


    The bike is a Giant Defy. The hub has about 50000 km on it, its been through a few cassettes. I've recently bought the Aldi toolkit and am anxious to start messing with things!

    New wheel.


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    km991148
    Registered Users Posts: 4,275 ✭✭✭km991148


    ted1 wrote: »
    New wheel.

    agree - in fairness at that millage - any repair you manage to make is probably going to be messy, time consuming and quite temporary anyway.

    The myriad of options you mention - a new rear wheel at that level will probably be around 60 anyway. A basic wheelset would be ~100 (The front won't wear as fast, but probably not far off it).

    For example:
    https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/shimano-rs100-road-clincher-wheelset/rp-prod184427

    Not the best, but similar- enough (I think) to the old R500


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    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,350 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    Roadtoad wrote: »
    When the freehub starts slipping, is it usually a replacement job or is a strip/lubricate job worth anything?
    There seems to be a myriad of options on some of the sites, and I was surprised that it will cost north of €60. Is there a simple selection? Is a salvage piece silly?


    The bike is a Giant Defy. The hub has about 50000 km on it, its been through a few cassettes. I've recently bought the Aldi toolkit and am anxious to start messing with things!

    New wheel.


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