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[Closed] Road wheels - creaking freehub/cassette?

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Bought a jawbone wheelset from jra last May and used them throughout the summer. The springlike quality of today made me think about sticking them back on, but then I remembered the creaking.

The wheels would be fine at first, but after around 100 miles I noticed a creaking which I narrowed down to the rear hub/cassette. I thought it was because my steel cassette had damaged the freehub at first, so I bought a new freehub and replaced the cassette with an aluminium caged version as the old one was quite worn anyway.

Put everything back together and the bike was fine - 100 miles later, the same problem. I ended up whipping the cassette off after 100 miles, putting it back on - and repeating after another 100 miles. Admittedly it did only take a minute but was a bit of a pain.

Anyone had anything like this? Worth going back to jra on, or just put up with it?


 
Posted : 22/03/2016 6:29 pm
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missing a spacer behind the cassette?
maybe give your axle/dropouts/skewers a clean.
could be the spokes rather than the freehub....


 
Posted : 22/03/2016 8:58 pm
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I had something very similar once. I gave up and got the LBS to check it out, they solved it by putting a bit more freehub grease in


 
Posted : 22/03/2016 9:30 pm