Got up for my daily commute this morning..bright and breezy at 5.30am, a sprinkling of frost and a definite nip in the air.
Went to jump on my Specialized Langster and zilch drive through the rear cassette, ie just slipping.
Had to drive in - brought the bike with me. Just checked the bike and all is ok??
Anyone else experienced this or should I be changing the cassette.
Slightly worried that it could suddenly go like that.
sounds like the pawls froze
take a leak on it and itll free right off - temporarily :d
quite a common issue at strathpuffer !
the pawls of the freehub could have frozen in place, thus not springing back so not engaging drive when you pedal. try pissing on it. 🙂
edit - to repeat excellent earlier advice 😆
Mine did that today as well, cup of water no pee sorted it 😉
Hey hello ski...did you get my emither?
Aye...Frozen pawls.
Ah great so nothing to worry about then ?
not really. but run it fixed anyway, then it won't happen again. 🙂
Anyone got a diagram of what is actually occurring with the pawls etc...
This should be fun 8)
You know how freewheels work?
Imagine it not working.....thats what happens.
Ah clearer now!
8)
Unlikely frozen, more likely the grease is just going a bit too stickey to let pawls spring back - or even just too much grease.
Same thing happened to my SS last weekend.
It was the grease that had gone sticky. Put too much in after a recent rebuild.
Cleaned it . Problem gone away.
People often put too much grease in freewheel pawls - and just as often put in too viscous a grease as well.
Strip it, clean it out, and put a smear of lightweight/flowy grease such as Prep M in it.
Strip and rebuild advised anyway because if it is too thick or gone you will get problems.
Didn't chris king hubs have this problem so they now have a winter grease (or oil?)
I've had the ratchet ring of a pro2 fill with ice and go smooth, so although the Paul's were moving, they couldn't engage.