my mate had exactly the same problem with his, the axle wears the carbon dropout away until the wheel is so skewed the tyre rubbed on the chainstay, cube weren’t interested in a warrenty claim so he fixed it himself with a carbon repair kit off the web.
why can’t they mount the replacable hanger on the inside then this problem wouldn’t exsist.

Tis a real shame its private, it’s a good big bit of woodland but unfortunately pheasants are more important, gorrick nearly got a race in there until the game keeper stuck his nose in.

was advised by sram tech when I had this problem with a ceramic one I fitted and was told do the bolt up tighter it was 56 or 58nm, but yes tighter the=an specified on the bolt and it sorted it.

Your not doing the bolt up tight enough 56nm will sort it.

I compiled a list of specialized bikes and what bearings last year and I only have the 08 pitch which suggests they all take the same bearings up until 2013 which are 8×6800 2rs and 6×6802 2rs someone correct me if I’m wrong.

cut a slot in the head with a junior hacksaw or dremil and use a flatblade screwdriver.

probably because they would have lost money if they had.

Van Nicholas have a write up in their 2014 catalogue about electron beam melting titanium manufacturing, had a picture of a stem they had made with it as well as a jet engine fan blade.

A bit tight is an understatement.

picture required, some fulcrum freehubs look weird.

“5 years I’ve had bikes with GXP and really not been much of an issue”.
I guess you don’t ride them, my last gxp lasted 5 weeks needless to say I no longer use them cheap or not.

we stock them and never had a problem, will check stock more closely tomorrow.

Or keep what you have for a couple of months and 25.4 will become the re-emerging standard for 2014. 😀

Parcel force must have different T&C’S because they deliver the full sus bikes to the shop i work at.

E-Mails sent.

DMED defence medical equipment depot in ludgershall now disused next to the wellington accadamy, winter 20-30 miles summer 40 plus generaly like to be back to ludgershall for about 12.30-45 let me know when you want to go we rarely miss a sunday reguardless of weather and we nearly always meet at the same place but you can mail me on btplank@hotmail.com, we do a few away days to swinley and the other side of the plain at earlstoke too.

I know the plain like the back of my hand and ride all the best stuff every sunday, I’m in collingbourne Kingston and meet a mate at DMED at 9.00am we have made tons of tracks over the last couple of years and keep them hidden from the MX bikes if you want a guided tour of all our secret stuff and the best of everything else let me know.

The S denotes the change to stainless bearings.

Big heavy hammer will get it apart :lol:.

if its packed with 50’s its mine.

To get back to the op’s original point the face of the rim that the valve is closest to go’s to the non drive side.

Concept stores are the start of the big brands going direct to public to cut links in the chain and make more money, it will take some years but I think you will see concept store become more common and once there is one in every city and town they will scrap all their independent dealers and run them all themselves taiwan to concept store to public.

you need the 6500 hoods 5500 and 6500 are the same part.

I can never understand the waiting time in bike shops, these shops and or mechanics must be a shower if you have two or three week waiting time.

if a spoke snaps on a mavic wheel you shouldn’t just replace one spoke and true it, you should take the tension out of the whole wheel then replace the spoke and then retension and true the the whole wheel.

I would if I were near, I could do 10prs on my day off and a couple of evenings 10quid a wheel.
scratch that just google mapped it 100 miles is defo not local.

A mate of mine was going to buy a dura ace groupset off them once because they were cheap and was told it was in stock ready for dispatch, luckily he told me before ordering and I told him to ring back the next day and as a new customer and say he would pick it up from the shop, wadaya know not available for collection.

Koolstop pads also non abrasive.

Bike shop staff will have you believe otherwise because uk bike shops can only buy shimano sti levers from the uk shimano disty in pairs.

Don’t hang them if you have high end milled out mavic rims as they machine them so thin it dents them.

Only if you don’t order them in good time.

+1 for the creaking plenty of grease on all contact points.

People make up reasons to explain their inadequacy’s.

Never needed to use an allen key to remove the freehub on any of the fulcrum hubs iv’e taken apart, have you got the axle out if not sometimes the freehub body bearings get stuck to the axle.

Picture would be handy I have some freehub bodys in the shed, might have something to fit.

As above sram shifters below XO are prone to this problem can’t believe they havn’t sorted the issue yet as it’s been an issue ever since they first started doing triggers.

You need to ask yourself can you afford to be a cycle mechanic, not great pay by any means, I love bikes and cycling but there are a lot of times I wish I had a better paying job, however to answer your question Cytec is becoming a must have in the trade so a good idea to have it although if I was an employer experience would be a far greater asset.

Long spells in direct sunlight can bleach anodize funny colours, know people who keep bikes in conservatories and ruin their anodize.

uneven spoke tension somewhere in the wheel, should never need to use any sort of locking compound on spoke nipples if its built right.

Bontrager XR1 fastest tyre you’ll ever run, and it’ll put you on your arse even faster on the damp bits 😆