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HAS anyone ever had a Chris king rear hub flange fail before the spoke has come straight through thought these were meant to be bomb proof well they should be for the price
Pretty sure I've heard of that quite a few times. Have you done a search? Try google as well.
Na ill av a look cheers
Na ill av a look cheers
Junk... I had a front hub do it within two months on like my third or fourth ride. I sent it to evolution and they wouldn't warranty it and wanted to sell me a new shell for iirc £100... Suffice to say I told them to stuff it. They wouldn't even send me back the old hub, so I only use DT now... 👿
yeap spoke to evolution direct not interested so have gone through my local bike shop who in fact are really helpfull but i dont think they will get anywhere either so went on CK website and they only warrant hubs for 5yrs. I can say i wont be buying CK again buying into there rep?? Hmmm ive got a hope xc rear hub which ive never had to service or touch its 9yrs old and still top notch so ill be using that one again by the looks of things - Thanks CK
Not great customer service is it? At least when a Hope does that, they'll replace them - almost regardless of the age. 🙂
Email Chris King directly,You will have better luck
Mark at Evolution couldn't have been more helpful when my front and rear CK road hubs failed on me. sent them to him, explained I'd bought them in US when working out there for a few weeks last year, and I'd had them built by Harry Rowland (master wheelbuilder of much reputation) - Sent wheels to Evolution and 3 weeks later Mark had the replacement hubs shipped to UK (28 hole front, 32 hole rear) and he got them rebuilt for me. all at no extra cost (I was expecting to have to pay for the rebuild)
he was very helpful and am amazed you havn't had good response from Evolution.
My wheels arrived today, and will be on the bike for ride to work 2morrow.
There is an entry on this blog about just this subject scroll down a bit. Read it yesterday.
http://whileoutriding.com/2011/02/26/things-break/
On a side note I have read that this is a problem this is more common in cnc hubs rather than forged hubs due to the microstructure not being formed as it is by forging. I'm not a materials scientist though so can't vouch for this even though it makes sense from the little I know about extruded metal having a "grain" of sorts.
Some more info here http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=3815
scroll down to "Hope versus experience".