So I was riding my new bike last night for pretty much the first time. I did a small skid and I felt my rear wheel spin. I stopped and my sprocket and lockring had both come off and were just chilling on the axle. I couldn’t screw the sprocket back on at all with out with starting thread crooked. The lockring screws on fine.
I flipped the wheel around and ran the sprocket on the single speed side of the hub so I could at least get home, but I’m pretty sure I’ve fucked my rear hub. I have to have a proper look at it tonight, but from what I saw last night, it’s not looking promising.
This is a pretty much brand new wheelset that I have had for fuck all, barely ridden. The hubs are Formula, and I knew they weren’t amazing, but still…! I greased the hub and the sprocket up when I originally screwed it on. I have barely touched the wheel since having them.
What are my options? Can I get the hub re-threaded or am better off getting a new (better quality) hub and getting the wheel laced to that? I just bougth a new frame and my remaining cash was buying a new saddle, not getting the rear wheel re-laced. :x :x :x
EDIT: I just rang the bike shop. About $80 for the hub and $110 for the parts and labour.
Sorry to hear about that.
When I started reading your story, I initially assumed ‘oh, they’re using a Quando hub’ or something. But with the Velocity hubs, I would expect better. I use Velocity’s on my street bike and I’ve never had any issues.
What brand of sprocket are you using?
Maybe your skids are too powerful… :mrgreen:
i’ve stripped a hub. not much can be done in fixing, as far as i know.
i put it back on with red loctite, which pretty much leaves you stock with the same cog and lockring unless you have a big oven to put your wheel in to weaken the loctite’s bond or you have the strength of godzilla.
I’m thinking the of doing the same thing and just running it until I can find a nice fixed / fixed hub and getting the funds to get the wheel re-built. The sprocket isn’t amazing, so I don’t mind loctiting it.
The most frustrating thing is that it was my first “proper” ride on this after building it up on the weekend.
I did this as well on formula hubs. Is the thread that’s rooted on the hub or the lockring?
When I did it I got the sprocket back on by rotafixing it in the office and basically forcing it passed the fucked thread. Not the best option but it kept me on the road for two weeks until payday when I replaced the hub.
With the new hub try rotafixing or some other method to get the sprocket on ‘tighter than a nuns’, then do the lockring up super tight.
If its the same as what happened to mine the sprocket wasn’t on tight enough and the force of the skid u wound it and pushed off the lockring.
The thread on the hub is rooted where where the sprocket is. Basically at the very start of the threading. I rotafixed it on there originally, but I’m thinking I I may of (possibly) crossthreaded it when doing so (it undid once). I’ll have a better look tonight. Hopefully I can thread it past the fucked part and get it done up, then rotafix it tight. The lock ring does up fine. I screwed it back on loosely last night so I wouldn’t lose it.
Maybe a long shot but would abbotsford or dan be able to chase the thread on the hub? I’d be surprised if there wasn’t someone, somewhere in Melbourne with the right die.
The AIS track squad’s headquartered in Adelaide (?) Couldn’t do any harm to call them and ask if they know someone…otherwise Nick’s solution is probably your best bet.
Have a look on ebay, there are something call JB weld…that will help you. They aint cheap tho but crazier than loctite. However if your lockring thread is ok, loctite will do the job.
I stripped my superbe hub, I know how you feel…and got myself some bolt on cog all good. So if you doing it for street riding only might as well invest on one of this:
Get yourself one of these beauties. It’s heavy duty and locks your gear on tight. I’ve used it on a few wheelsets and never had a problem. One of the few good pieces I own and indispensible.
I didn’t get it from these guys, just stole their pic. It’s heavy as shit, so buy one locally. The freight cost would kill you.
So I took my back wheel off last night and unscrewed the sprocket from the freewheel side (after reverse rota-fixing it to get it off, I guess riding through North Adelaide got it pretty tight). I cleaned up the track threaded side, and managed to screw on the sprocket on, so I regreased it all, screwed on the sprocket, rotafixed as tight as I possibly could, went to screw on the lock-ring and the it wouldn’t screw on. It’s like it’s too big for the hub…! I can wiggle it around. WTF? I double checked the threads and the lock ring, nothing seems stripped… the crazy thing is the I screwed the lock ring onto the hub on Monday night after it came off so I wouldn’t lose it when I continued riding… Went to the bike shop at lunch, got a new lock ring, the put it on and all is good.
It was freaking weird, cause when I was trying to screw the sprocket back on Monday night, it would not go on straight at all.
