[RBW] XT Hub Issues

2015-08-31 Thread Clayton.sf
Hi All, Almost new XT (HB-T780) touring rear hub. Freewheel has stopped freewheeling on a few fast descents turing it in to a fixed wheel. After a while it frees up again just to come back in the worst situations. Hub has less than a 1,000 miles on it. Searching the internet has not yielded

Re: [RBW] XT Hub Issues

2015-08-31 Thread Tim Gavin
I had a bum freehub on my HB-T780. On mine, the pawls would sometimes fail to engage, meaning it freewheeled in BOTH directions. I ordered mine from a site in Germany as part of an XT dynamo wheelset. Since return of the whole wheelset was impractical, I removed the freehub* and returned only

Re: [RBW] XT Hub Issues

2015-08-31 Thread Jim Bronson
Wow that's terrible. Sorry to hear of it. That could be really dangerous going downhill fast. your derailer could be wrapped around the cassette in a hurry. I have one of those XT-780 hubs also, and it has been rock solid, go figure I've done about 12,000Ks of rando rides on it in the last 3

[RBW] xt hub

2011-02-16 Thread DAVID BLESSING
Hi everyone. Beautiful day in Nebraska. Back from a bike ride. I have an XT rear hub, 36 hole. It is identified by FH-M730. I was told by someone on the list that it was probably one of those parts that might not be too popular. i don't even know for sure how I acquired it. Free to a

RE: [RBW] xt hub gone really quickly

2011-02-16 Thread DAVID BLESSING
Thanks for all the interest From: cyberbless...@q.com To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com Subject: [RBW] xt hub Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:46:29 + Hi everyone. Beautiful day in Nebraska. Back from a bike ride. I have an XT rear hub, 36 hole. It is identified by FH-M730. I