Originally Posted by Martin O
For some years ago we had the same problem in south Sweden. Lot of front wheels the hub flange broke. It was a maillard/sachs hub. Later we recognise it was a geographic local problem. They had made changes in the road salt composition to save the trees
Stupid trees.
Although this did occur shortly after a week of heavy, snowy riding during which the bike was undoubtedly exposed to massive amounts of salt and other anti-snow-and-ice chemicals. But could that stuff be so noxious as to cause such thorough corrosion so quickly?