Consider yourself lucky! Every set that has come through here has had problems. The front bearing is tiny. You only have approximately 277 hours(or less, if you are fast) on them! I understand that these are designed for race-day only use, but their Achilles Heel, the rear pawl actuator, makes them unsuitable for any purpose other than displaying "bling" at club rides, IMHO. The problem is this: whereas most hubs use a failsafe engagement mechanism, meaning the pawls automatically engage due to the design of the hub, the Am Classic has no springs in the mechanism, rather a single tiny piece of stiff (brittle) wire protrudes from the back of the freehub body. This wire is supposed to engage a metal plate with small holes over which the rather large pawls sit. The wire grabs a hole in the plate and rotates it. This rotation is what forces the pawls out far enough to grab the teeth of the freehub body. Should the wire break or become deformed, it will not engage and you are left with a bike that pedals and shifts fine, but will go nowhere. The rear bearing adjustment is a joke as well. There's so much slop in the system, it never adjusts up right the first time. Set it to what would be correct for any other hub with an axle vise, then stick it in your bike, and find it won't turn!

I understand you and your friend like these hubs, but there are much better choices when it comes to reliability, servicability and simplicity.

When compared to Hugi's failsafe and elegantly simple "star ratchet" design used now in Dt Swiss 240s hubs and all of Bontrager's high end wheels, the Am Classic seems clunky and somewhat Rube Goldbergish.