[Closed] Cheap rear 135mm QR hub?

Why not shimano? You could get a Deore 6 bolt for £25-30. You could therfore get 2 for about £50. I'm not sure you'd get much else that you'd ever get spares for around that price tbh (could be wrong!)

Mm, and the 6-bolt XTs (M756?) should be well under £50 too.

Last one I bought was a SRAM 506 for £17 a few months ago, but they seem broadly unavailable now.

Novatec on eBay/Aliexpress.

The XT seems to weigh quite a lot though?

I've had a chosen hub before but I cannot find a reseller in the UK.

Which novatec hub?

Novatec if you like regularly replacing freehubs. 2 in 2 years, and im a 12 stone mincer... 😕

The XT's not the lightest, but you're looking for 6-bolt rear hubs under £50, you can't have everything 🙂

On the plus side they last just about forever.

How about "koozer" hubs?!

The XT's not the lightest, but you're looking for 6-bolt rear hubs under £50, you can't have everything

On the plus side they last just about forever.

Sums it up really.

Ebay for an old hope XC? About the only thing that kills them is the ratchet eventually wears, although Hope were still pressing new ones in if you sent it in for a service.

Cheap, light, strong… you've chosen the first one, you've got one choice left 😉

Hope pro 2 or XC second hand then.

Formula any good or rubbish?

Hope no longer do ratchets for the XC. 🙁

The basic, Deore & XT start out with the same shell, the XT has fancy slots added. Better bearing races, freehub & sealing as they get to XT too I think. The bearing cups wearing sounds the death chime for Shimano though, but look after them & that can be put off pretty much indefinitely. Lot of folk fear cup & cones, but needlessly so. They are straightforward enough to look after.

I've got a hope bulb I may still, but it uses centre lock rotors, which are not the modern pattern afaik.

Def don't want to do any kinda of centre lock but cheers anyway 🙂

I already have the 6 bolt disks you see 🙂

If that's what's stopping you getting other hubs, I think superstar do adapters for about a tenner 🙂

I already have the 6 bolt disks you see

I get where you're coming from in wanting to use existing parts, but you don't have to let a pair of £10 each rotors dictate your hub choice...

I this a stop-gap hub that's expected to last a bit or not get hard use?
Or is it going on on a daily use bike and you want a decade+ of use out of it?
Are you OK with servicing and looking after C+C hubs or are you a 'ride it till they explode and bash in new cartridges' kinda guy?

Its going on a giant trance which gets used twice a month but ridden hard (and badly :))

TBH you lot have sold me on the XT 6 bolt hub more now so I might be tempted however really I was hoping to get something similar to my "chosen" rear (which is on another bike) with its silky smooth 120 POE... I've no idea about longevity yet as its only 2 months old

Other than on the prebuild wheelsets I have only found the chosen hubs from Chinese sellers however I don't really want to wait a month for it to arrive