My rear hub bearings were already a bit notchy before I left home this morning and a nice new hope/stans combination is already planned as a replacement.. but today the bearings really went kerboom and the last mile or so home sounded like I was riding a concrete mixer full of bricks..
I had 2.5 stone yunki Jr in his seat on the back so I wasn't massively surprised..
When my new wheels come I'm going to keep my old wheels for babyseat duty (obviously with new hubs)..
Does anyone else run a burly wheel for cargo duty..?
Any hub recommendations..?
Deore..?
how heavy are you? i'm 17.5 stone plus kit and have run hope pro 2's for ages on both my mountain and commuter. the commuter comes in at 50lbs with kit on it and they're still smooth.
my mountain bike is 12mm which helps but the commuter is standard 9mm so pretty impressive.
Use a tandem hub? Hope do one
http://www.tandems.co.uk/products.php?plid=m11b0s32p0&tbv=_Wheels_&_Wheel_Components_Hubs
I don't think you'd have any problems running the new wheelset for everything, but could just go for shimano hubs if you really wanted a spare wheelset, just cause they're so easy to service.
I had that problem with our bairn in the child seat - cross bike though so 700cc wheel. I got a rear wheel built just on an xt hub, but by a specialist touring shop (spa cycles) onto a touring rim. It has been a bomb-proof wheel for commuting / child-ferrying. So I reckon the quality of the build is what it's all about when you're hauling weight.
Deore should be fine as long as you remember a)M475 isn't Deore, despite looking similar, b)strip/grease/adjust cones before using it, c)they require routine servicing. Follow the above advice, and with the occasional freehub replacement, they go on for years.
No need in my view. There are plenty of heavy mountain bikers and they don't seem to be mashing through bearings at a great pace.
my reasoning is that I can cope with damaging a £300 wheelset when I'm doing my best Fabien Barel impression on a moorland boulder field..
however.. [b]if[/b].. and I understand that it's a big if.. and that I'm possibly being irrational.. but [b]if[/b] I damaged my new (barely affordable) £300 wheelset wobbling at walking pace down a country lane with 35lbs of snoring baby slumped over my rear axle I'd be a bit depressed..
especially if I've got a heavy old spare wheel in the shed with a bombproof rim and a potentially cheap and bombproof hub..
Does that make sense or am I missing something here..?