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Is that an HG or MS XT cassette that's chewed it up?
Looking to build a new rear wheel soon & had decided on these. Thanks for the feedback.
I'm running a pair as a spare (more road/bridleway) wheelset, using XR 391 rims with 2.35 Barzo's. They built up easily enough, and were a fraction of the price of DT 240's for essentially the same weight. But I've only done about 300 miles on them thus far, so too early to say regarding long term reliability. I haven’t taken the XT cassette off since it went on, so couldn't say whether it's chewed the freehub or not.
Happy thus far though.
I've happily continued to run Hope freehubs with HG splines that have had cut-in for years - the correct torque really does help, and it's only a faff when removing a cassette. Bearing in mind the relatively low cost of a replacement freehub - the Oneup ones are £40 compared to double that for the Hopes. DT seem to be roughly comparable, although that may only be for the pawl hubs.
Interesting that there's a possible cross-compatibility for star ratchets. 36 is fine for me so far, but good to have extra choice - I don't really want to trust my teeth / face / testes to something bought from Aliexpress.
They really should've designed an anti-bite steel strip on the HG freehub, several companies have adopted the idea with great results but the £40 price is a bit more bearable than others charging double that, I'd never go back to alloy HG freehubs or use a rear hub that ejects the cassette along with the freehub at the slightest of knocks, sounds like a contamination nightmare to me, I'd be constantly thinking did any dirt get in, but my OCD would probably result in a strip down every time it happened.
I think the anti-bite things might be patented, it's a great idea though, works great.