Loud Hub.... maybe a strange request.

*AJ*

Ive suddenly got the urge to have a nice loud clicking freewheel sound from my rear hub.

I dont know why, but i really like the sound of it when i see others with loud hubs at my local trail centre.

So back to my question, which budget hubs are loud???

Ive currently got an old hope hub, which does sound like a quality clicking, but its nowhere near as loud as ive heard recently.

The Northern Monkey

halo supa drive are loud.

Superstar have said that one of their hubs is louder than Hope... not sure which though!

cat_with_no_tail

Just get a good DT Hub, it's not as loud as hope, but it's a quality, solid, well engineered sound, rather than a box of spanners sound.

Failing that, Tune have some loud hubs too.

andyrm

Clean your Hope out, takes about 10 minutes, and then relube with a high quality machine oil. Will sound super loud.

njee20

So back to my question, which budget hubs are loud???

That's DT and Tune out then CWNT :-)

Superstar sounds like a good bet, generally loud = expensive, I9, Chris King etc.

Andy

Or just get a hub that works and concentrate on riding rather than what your hub sounds like.

Anonymous

Andy wrote:

Or just get a hub that works and concentrate on riding rather than what your hub sounds like.

Which, I find, is far easier with a silent hub than a loud one.

cavegiant

I like a clicky hub, I use that to guage my speed precisely for technical stuff.

You can make most hubs clicky.

Clear the grease out of the pawl chamber and switch to oil, the thinner the oil is the more often you will have to relube, but the louder it gets.

Finishline wet lube is a good middle ground.

Any dry lube for serious noise.

just make sure to regularily check your hub to see that the lube is covering the right surfaces and doing the right job.

This may increase hub wear, but I have never noticed.

njee20

I must say I've never really thought about my hub noise!

Excalibur76

You want a chris king then take a look at the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zexHiuppug&feature=related[url][/url]

*AJ*

Andy wrote:

Or just get a hub that works and concentrate on riding rather than what your hub sounds like.

Told you it was a wierd request.

But i do love the sound of a loud hub!

Superstar look a good bet actually!

Excalibur76

*AJ* wrote:

Andy wrote:

Or just get a hub that works and concentrate on riding rather than what your hub sounds like.

Told you it was a wierd request.

But i do love the sound of a loud hub!

Superstar look a good bet actually!

did you watch the vid bud lol

chedabob

Excalibur76 wrote:

You want a chris king then take a look at the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zexHiuppug&feature=related[url][/url]

Jesus mary and joseph, I'd shart myself if I heard that coming up behind me on the trails

Excalibur76

chedabob wrote:

Excalibur76 wrote:

You want a chris king then take a look at the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zexHiuppug&feature=related[url][/url]

Jesus mary and joseph, I'd shart myself if I heard that coming up behind me on the trails

lol i know how loud are they.

njee20

Quieter than a Pro 2 I reckon, and if freshly lubed and greased they're not all that loud at all.

I do worry about anyone who videos their freehub purely to put it on YouTube.

bails87

Put a card in your spokes?

cavegiant

I had the Chris King and tried it witha few oils, it just has an annoying buz, not a good click like the Hope.

Andy

My DT Swiss hubs are pretty quiet. I like it that way.

Torres

Halo spin doctors make a fair noise

cat_with_no_tail

Andy wrote:

My DT Swiss hubs are pretty quiet. I like it that way.

Agreed, like I said earlier, it's a nice, well built sort of sound.

Chris5.5

I have the superstar superleggera, first impressions are good, just need to see how they last through winter, but at £135 a pair if they can get me to next summer and bonus time I will be happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_FFypiI1Ts

the article don

I think the loudest are Tune. The xx grey goose fellow on here with the super bling Cannondales has them and he posted a video where you could apprciate how loud they are. Here's one from Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iuPA8RNfAI

Personally, once you've had a nice loud hub you can't go back. Plus they remind me of my yoof when most bikes had a clicky freewheel

Anonymous

the article don wrote:

Personally, once you've had a nice loud hub you can't go back. Plus they remind me of my yoof when most bikes had a clicky freewheel

I beg to differ. I rode a hope Bulb for a decade, and now I've grown so weary of it that I wouldn't consider another hope rear hub in future.

the article don

...hence the use of the word "Personally"...

Anonymous

Ok. Calm down. just voicing my opinion.

The Northern Monkey

yeehaamcgee wrote:

the article don wrote:

Personally, once you've had a nice loud hub you can't go back. Plus they remind me of my yoof when most bikes had a clicky freewheel

I beg to differ. I rode a hope Bulb for a decade, and now I've grown so weary of it that I wouldn't consider another hope rear hub in future.

i can think of better reasons to not have hope hubs.

Anonymous

Such as?

cooldad

Noisy hubs=

Anonymous

WOW! The face in that T-shirt looks like it belongs to a Cool Rad Dude.

Da Mighty Chicken

bails87 wrote:

Put a card in your spokes?

Spokey Dokeys for the win

popstar

Agree with Cooldad, that freaking noise kills enjoyment out of proper ride. Think of it, no thump from tyres over roots, no bang of suspension over jump, no shallow screetch before a crash? You better slap your face with that noisy hub and clickety damn your teeth, why no properly enjoy the ride how it should be? Think next time clickety rider should take I-pod and ride listening to a studio produced clicky-clicks some black runs just for variety of it.

Rant over.