shut up hope freehub

stubs
stubs Posts: 5,001
edited September 2013 in MTB workshop & tech
Any one know how to quieten a hope freehub I bought a set of hope wheels on ebay but I cant use them the bloody noise is doing my head in :x
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  • schmako
    schmako Posts: 1,982
    New hub or put up with it. My two mtbs have hope hubs, the noise doesn't bother me. You'll get used to it.
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    grease the pawls will quiten it for a while.
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  • skyliner
    skyliner Posts: 613
    Light oil in the freehub will do the trick,(the trials version runs with it) but you'll have to strip & lube it about once a month to keep it sweet because the std version has a different labyrinth seal.
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  • scotttomo
    scotttomo Posts: 531
    Wear some earplugs :wink:
    I love the sound o my hope hubs i know they're workin...... or is that a swarm of bees chasin you? :wink:
    Come to think of it, how often should i be servicing my pro2 hubs? (didn't get any manual when i got em!)
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  • Mr_Orange
    Mr_Orange Posts: 198
    Change them for something quiet - like XTR, which are virtually silent. Well mine is anyway!
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  • Will Snow
    Will Snow Posts: 1,154
    ha, my deores dont make a sound... and i think they were about £20!! still want some hopes like, i live the noise!!!
    i ride a hardtail
  • dav1
    dav1 Posts: 1,298
    if they didn't make the noise they wouldn't be hopes, it would have concequences on the order of the universe to get rid of it :p
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  • Sir HC
    Sir HC Posts: 20,148
    More/thicker grease in the freehubs will make them quieter.
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  • Gethin69
    Gethin69 Posts: 8
    Yep greape bulbs!se it up it up! You can't hear a click off my ho
  • Steve_b77
    Steve_b77 Posts: 1,680
    Surely putting excess grease into something like a hub is a recipie for disater
  • Sir HC
    Sir HC Posts: 20,148
    Steve_b77 wrote:
    Surely putting excess grease into something like a hub is a recipie for disater

    As long as you don't pack the freehub full, it will be ok. If the pawls start making a racket, you know there is too much grease. Or your springs.pawls need replacing.
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  • clarkson
    clarkson Posts: 1,641
    i love the sound of my hopes. beautiful!
    I said hit the brakes not the tree!!

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  • ChickyChick
    ChickyChick Posts: 151
    hopes are music to my ears!!! if u stretch the springs slightly they click even louder too ;)
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  • stevie the freerider
    stevie the freerider Posts: 212
    why would you want to make hopes quiet.


    as a skate park rider we always deside the person with the loudest hub is the coolest (or something like that lol)
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  • smitty
    smitty Posts: 125
    yeah they make abit of noise but didnt we all put lolly pop sticks through the back wheel as kids ? youll get use to the noise but i find it quiet calming
  • stubs
    stubs Posts: 5,001
    I solved the problem of the noisy hope hub I sold the hubs and bought a pair of xt hubs now its so quiet AHHHHHH BLISS :lol:
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  • Will Snow
    Will Snow Posts: 1,154
    they only make noise if your not pedalling... simple solution.
    i ride a hardtail
  • stubs
    stubs Posts: 5,001
    I am an asthmatic lardarse I need to stop pedalling sometimes so i can breathe also its good fun silently creeping up on dog walkers and making them and there dog shit machines jump
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  • RussAlf
    RussAlf Posts: 706
    stubs wrote:
    I solved the problem of the noisy hope hub I sold the hubs and bought a pair of xt hubs now its so quiet AHHHHHH BLISS :lol:

    Did you not read reviews of xt hubs? They wil be silent for the first 3 months, then they willl get louder and louder with the sound of them breaking.

    I cant beleive you replaced hope hubs with xt's.
  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    xt are fine, as long as you maintain them well.

    I'd rather forgo the hassle and keep my hopes though. I only strip them when i'm bored.
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  • stubs
    stubs Posts: 5,001
    XT hubs are cup and cone with loose balls if I strip and regrease them a couple of times a year (which takes all of about 15 mins) and put new balls in regulary and a new freehub every couple of years then they should last me about as long as my original deore xt hubs 11 years and still rolling smoothly on my commuter iron
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  • Privateirony
    Privateirony Posts: 44
    stubs wrote:
    Any one know how to quieten a hope freehub I bought a set of hope wheels on ebay but I cant use them the bloody noise is doing my head in :x

    Buy some earplugs and suck it up
  • stubs
    stubs Posts: 5,001
    Privateirony wrote:
    stubs wrote:
    Any one know how to quieten a hope freehub I bought a set of hope wheels on ebay but I cant use them the bloody noise is doing my head in :x

    Buy some earplugs and suck it up

    Bloody hell talk about raising the dead this thread is 5 and a half years old :lol::lol:

    I had forgotten about those Hopes I loathed the bloody things sold them and made a few quid profit and the XT hubs that replaced them are now on a mates bikes still smoothly and quietly rolling. Now got Easton hubs and they are noiseless but dont know how they will last.
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  • stubs
    stubs Posts: 5,001
    These are supposed to be the quietest and toughest BMX/MTB hubs you can buy but eye wateringly expensive

    http://www.trueprecisioncomponents.com/tpc-products/mtb-rear-hub/
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    Xt are good hubs, but by the nature of Shimano market share there will always be more -ve reviews. Besides few report that as a failure mode!
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