[Closed] Alfine Hub Servicing

yes its just like any other shimano hub ... its no rohloff.

cant be any more specific all i know is another mechanic buddy of mine goes on a course for servicing them soon

Pleeeeaaasssee will you post some sort of answer when you have one trail_rat?

I'd like to know what's needed (even though the lbs says there's not much to do and 'just leave it')

Ben

http://hubstripping.wordpress.com/alfine-shimano/

and word from shimano is that overhaul every 2 years but it is designed as a city hub and JRA recomends more regular maintainance

other than that i believe it was end of the month me bud was doing the course.

Thanks for the link.. Looks like a shop job every now and then.

I have a genesis IOID with the alfine and it runs like a dream. Time will tell I guess!

Good aren't they?

I've just popped a 20T sprocket on mine to lower the ratios a bit - it wasn't that I couldn't ride things I would normally be able to on a 9spd set up, just that there was no room for error on the really steep stuff and I seemed to spend 95% of the ride in the 3 lowest gears.

The movie on the hubstripping site showing the effect of using grease in the Alfine as opposed to an oil (like the Rohloff) was quite enlightening, but I don't propose to take the whole thing apart at the moment. Also, the comments about how hub gearboxes produce a high amount of metal filings in the first few miles due to them bedding in were interesting - in a hub using oil these are normally flushed out with the first oil change, but with grease they knock about for quite some time afterwards, potentially shortening the lifespan of the gearbox.

Ben

Thanks Ben

I have only had mine for a few weeks. Have you noticed any change of performance over time?

If anything it's freed up and become more slick over the past few months.

I got it just before Christmas, but I've only put about 200 miles on it since then as it's not the only Mountain Bike I've got.

I'm out on it tonight with the new sprocket and a larger/slicker set of tyres, which I'm hoping will give me just a little more comfort.

The chap in the lbs has had one for 18 months and it feels just like mine as far as I remember.