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[Closed] Superstar Hub - deafeningly quiet

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Recently got a Superstar wheel, one of the DH ones built onto one of their Switch hubs.

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Fantastic wheel, fantastic build, all very, very good. However, its a bit quiet... I like a bit of click, not Pro-2 levels, but a bit nonetheless. I find it useful on my xc wheels as a way of letting folk know I'm approaching on towpaths etc in the absence of a bell.

If I wash all the grease out of the freehub, or try to lessen it, is it likely to degrade rapidly/break/blow up? Anything I can use in its place?


 
Posted : 24/04/2012 7:12 am
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A bell?


 
Posted : 24/04/2012 7:23 am
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Posted : 24/04/2012 7:31 am
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A nice quiet hub and you want to make more noise?

Put a lolly stick in your spokes.


 
Posted : 24/04/2012 7:37 am
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Water bottle filled with crickets is the standard accepted fix as far as I know.


 
Posted : 24/04/2012 7:45 am
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Similarly disappointed with the silence. Other than that, it seems fine after 18 months.


 
Posted : 24/04/2012 7:52 am
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I changed my Switch freehub a couple of years ago and forgot to grease it properly - makes a nice clicky noise (not quite Hope noise levels) and has been fine ever since!


 
Posted : 24/04/2012 7:56 am
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I would only change my Hope click for a CK 'buzz'. None of this silent bicycle rubbish!


 
Posted : 24/04/2012 7:57 am
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My Switch is "fairly" clicky. Perhaps it needs more grease.

Spokey dokey?


 
Posted : 24/04/2012 8:02 am
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Liking the suggestions so far, though the water bottle filled with crickets idea seems a little mean...plus, how do you turn it off when you start to pedal? Train them?
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Turbospoke is awesome!!

ask a stoopid question........
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Posted : 24/04/2012 8:19 am