Hi

I had aggro from my freehub this morning
Its been used for 2 1/2y and has otherwise been fine

I had an intermittent fault approx 4-5 times over a 3h ride when it wouldnt engage leading to comical spinning of the pedals and a bashed shin 🙁

Now ordinarily Id have it stripped down on the kitchen table and get grief from the GF to find the cause

However:

1) Its christmas

2) The bike is filthy

3) It was -6 out in rural Cambridge first thing I cant help but think this may be the cause

Is it likely to be something frozen and thus never happen again or am I just an optimist and its gonna give me no end of pain till I strip it down properly?

Cheers

What wheel?

Good point!

XT

Freehub is only serviceable with a load of hassle – they are not supposed to be repairable.

Buy another hub the same and transfer the freehub over then you have a spare set of bearings and cones as well as s spindle

same happened to a rider i was with today. My diagnosis is frozen internals.

happened to me last winter. intermittent problem was put down to having water in the freehub which had frozen. ended up stuck on top of the moors until my mate suggested taking a pi$$ on it. it worked!! and then of course it froze again shortly afterwards. i ended up consuming all 2.5L of water from my camelbak so i had a constant supply of 'de-icer' to get me off the hillside.

I snapped the some of the pawls on a DT Swiss last year on the moors at -7, sounds like new freehub time.

Piss on it, it works for me, as it may well be frozen inside.

Buy a new one. I spent ages three times servicing my old Hope hub. Once it starts to wear its buggered. Plus its a pain to remove, clean, grease etc so it gets neglected till its broken. Once water gets in, which it will, its hard to get out and with all the movement going on inside it ends up turning the grease into grinding paste.