Originally Posted by
cyccommute
While it is true that the freehub is separate from the hub shell in the ”Campagnolo type”, the freehub body doesn’t just float in midair. It ”floats” on the axle and on two more bearings. Those extra bearings aren’t just along for the ride. As I’ve said before, the bearing on the driveside are as attached to the axle as the bearings on the nondriveside and support weight in exactly the same manner.
Dude,
how?! Bust out a felt-tipped pen and a napkin and take a pic with your phone, and show me how any load from those ratchet bearings gets into the hubshell. Aside perhaps from some negligible percentage under power, from friction between pawls and ratchet. Bending loads on the axle push and pull on the pawls laterally, so it's a merely academic consideration how much that's holding your hub together. Nothing much at all is, aside from being clamped in the frame. These hubs are stupid.
If you insist on continuing to deny it, show me your alleged load path in a diagram.
This is something that I hear constantly from people who have no knowledge of cartridge bearings nor how widely ubiquitous their use is in our modern society.
An appeal to ubiquity doesn't cut much ice in a sub-optimal world. I'd consider shagged-out cartridge bearings pretty ubiquitous too, based on how many I've come across. If you have a cartridge bearing hub you want to convince me is the tits, you can start out by pointing to the preload adjustment for the angular contact bearings.