Sram Freehub

iwilldoit

Hi All.

Bought some Mavic Cross Ride wheels and they have a Sram XD freehub fitted, how do you remove the freehub off the hub ?

If I used the Sram freehub and Sram cassette would it work ok with a Shimano rear mech, I want to use the wheels as a spare set of wheels for my sons bike so he can have a dry set up and a wet set up for his racing, so I want them to drop in and not be fiddling adjusting mechs etc

The Rookie

You can of course use a SRAM XD hub with a SRAM cassette and a Shimano rear mech, many people do it, the cassettes have the same standard gear separation.

Mavic tell you all
http://www.mavic.com/sites/default/file ... FTSX_0.pdf

iwilldoit

The Rookie wrote:

You can of course use a SRAM XD hub with a SRAM cassette and a Shimano rear mech, many people do it, the cassettes have the same standard gear separation.

Mavic tell you all
http://www.mavic.com/sites/default/file ... FTSX_0.pdf

Cheers for the info Rookie is the Sram cassette a special one for the XD free hub or do al the cassettes fit on it ?

ilovedirt

Only SRAM cassettes will fit the XD driver.

iwilldoit

ilovedirt wrote:

Only SRAM cassettes will fit the XD driver.

Is that all Sram cassettes fit or do Sram do one for the XD driver, need a 9 speed for my sons bike.

Horton

ilovedirt wrote:

Only SRAM cassettes will fit the XD driver.

More accurately, only XD cassettes will fit the XD freehub... SRAM make plenty of non-XD cassettes which will fit standard freehubs. Other manufacturers are beginning to produce XD compatible cassettes (at a cost...)

The XD driver (freehub) was designed specifically to allow a 10 tooth smallest sprocket size rather than the normal 11 tooth found on standard freehubs, which enables them to create a bigger gear range on 1x drivetrains. I'm not 100% but I think the XD cassettes are 11 and 12 speed.

There is no problem at all using a Shimano mech with a SRAM cassette as Rookie rightly says. As to whether or not it's compatible with what you're wanting to do - swapping wheels with no messing about with the mech will depend on a few things but number of gears being one of the obvious issues.

As a separate issue to bear in mind, if it's a different hub (irrelevant of gears) then you may well find that the disc is in a slightly different location relative to the calliper so the brakes may need some adjustment/fettling/bedding in too.

Edit - crossed posts... If it's 9 speed, I think you'll need to have a look at getting a standard freehub and swapping the XD one out. Then you can use any 9 speed cassette.

iwilldoit

Horton wrote:

ilovedirt wrote:

Only SRAM cassettes will fit the XD driver.

More accurately, only XD cassettes will fit the XD freehub... SRAM make plenty of non-XD cassettes which will fit standard freehubs. Other manufacturers are beginning to produce XD compatible cassettes (at a cost...)

The XD driver (freehub) was designed specifically to allow a 10 tooth smallest sprocket size rather than the normal 11 tooth found on standard freehubs, which enables them to create a bigger gear range on 1x drivetrains. I'm not 100% but I think the XD cassettes are 11 and 12 speed.

There is no problem at all using a Shimano mech with a SRAM cassette as Rookie rightly says. As to whether or not it's compatible with what you're wanting to do - swapping wheels with no messing about with the mech will depend on a few things but number of gears being one of the obvious issues.

As a separate issue to bear in mind, if it's a different hub (irrelevant of gears) then you may well find that the disc is in a slightly different location relative to the calliper so the brakes may need some adjustment/fettling/bedding in too.

Edit - crossed posts... If it's 9 speed, I think you'll need to have a look at getting a standard freehub and swapping the XD one out. Then you can use any 9 speed cassette.

Thank you for the info, I thought I might have to go with std freehub, just got to work out how to get the XD off now

The Rookie

Erm, as per the link to the Mavic instructions posted.

iwilldoit

The Rookie wrote:

Erm, as per the link to the Mavic instructions posted.

Yes sorry Rookie it was getting the spindle out which I've just done and the freehub practically fell off then, something I thought a little strange on the disc side, one nice smooth shiny washer/spacer and one rather rough looking one, the fella I had the wheels off mentioned that the rear wheel was stiff at times, by this he said that the pedals sometime carried on going like a fixed wheel ( As I was thinking I would need to replacing the freehub I wasn't that worried but the XD freehub is a free as a free thing)

Anyone know if the rough washer should be I there ?