Originally Posted by
cyclotoine
This blows my mind. My hubs feel like they have glue in them at -10.. I took my studs off last night as there isn't enough snow out there yet and felt I was ruining them. Spinning the hubs they have a ton of resistance. What kind of grease do you use for your winter steeds. I repacked my girlfriend's hubs with Motorex white grease this fall and they seem better than mine. I even mixed in a drop of phil wood tenacious oil in the rear to thin it out a bit.
I am thinking dura-ace special freehub grease all around would be awesome, but damn expensive.
I usually run a three speed IGH with synthetic oil which runs very smoothly at normal and fairly extreme winter temperatures... it has only been when I have ridden at -52F that things started to get a little sluggish and skippy and that was with my extracycle which has synthetic grease in the hub and freehub body.