Hello to the group. I've been busy loving my Joe Appaloosa. Riding it a lot, all over.
I am having a new problem with my Silver rear hub. I believe this is totally unrelated to the locking up problem that I had early on. That problem has disappeared with regular lube to the internal pawls and ratchet of the free hub mechanism. It's a beautiful hub and really easy to take apart and service. Now what is happening is the cassette does not seem to be keeping up with the wheel. When I am coasting in any gear to the right of the middle cog of my 9-speed cassette, the chain lies down on the chain stay. If I am in the middle front chainring the chain starts to rub the tire and threatens to get sucked in and further nastiness. When I look down at the rear hub while riding I can see that the drive side flange is no longer perfectly true. It has a slight visual wobble. Maybe it has always been like that and is not the cause of this. Nothing I can feel except for the chain suck. There's no on and off resistance that I can feel. I'm dealing with this right now by cross chaining a little bit more than I normally would. Staying in the big ring everything is fine. Middle ring, I have to be careful to stay up past the middle of the cassette. Little ring is a no-can-do right now. I'm not sure what happened or what I did. We travelled last week with four bikes on the back of the car. It's always tight but I'm always careful not to jam any parts of the bikes together. Still, it's possible something happened while it was on the car. I thought maybe I over tightened the two 5mm allen nuts holding the hub together. Took it apart again, checked everything over and made sure not to tighten the nuts so much. It didn't seem to make a difference. Are there any other adjustments I can try to make to the hub to help alleviate this problem until I can get a new wheel? I'm really kind of hoping it won't come to getting a new wheel. Bill in Westchester, NY -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
