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[Closed] hope freehub body

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I took my cassette off for the first time since I had my wheels built up about 8 months ago. I have a Hope Pro II rear hub. I pretty much had to leaver the damn cassette off the freehub! The splines seem to be made of marshmallow!

Is this a screw up on Hope's part? Can I ask them for a warranty replacement or do I have to fork out £50 for a new one every time I want to do some maintenance?

I've read about one or two other people had this problem. How many more of you have found this?


 
Posted : 28/09/2009 9:18 pm
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What cassette are you running? Are the sprockets on a carrier or loose? Hope specify that you need to use a cassette with the sprockets on a carrier to stop then eating into the aluminium freehub body.


 
Posted : 28/09/2009 9:20 pm
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I think the first 5 are on a carrier and the last few are loose.


 
Posted : 28/09/2009 9:29 pm
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The standard ones are made of dairylea and do not like casettes without carriers. Fit a steel freehub body on it and then you can run any casette without it self destructing.


 
Posted : 28/09/2009 9:36 pm