What causes hubs to fail?
 

I'm still trying to determine why the Mavic Ksryium Elite hub failed after only 4K miles. The first time it failed was after a simple tire change. I fixed it and put it back together.

On Friday, a bungy got caught in the wheel while going over a speed bump (uphill slowly). I stopped and pulled the cord out of the wheel and no pedal capaiblity. These speed bumps don't have the woos-out sides like most.

My route consists of going over 8 speed bumps/day (round trip) X 2.5 yrs (about 500 trips) or 4000 speed bump crossings. I'm under 130lbs.

Never had problems with Sun, Rolf Vector and Race Lite X with similar riding over the years. What causes hubs to faile? Is this a common problem with Mavics or should I ride the longer route around the speed bumps?

How have your hubs failed? Did they break in half?

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A piece fell off inside. After reseating that circular shaped part inside the hub, the hub worked OK. Until it got dislodged again (after going over a speed bump). The Mavic was the only hub to fail.

Bungies are a pain for sure.

What piece fell off inside, I can't really picture any pieces that could fall off w/o also releasing the bearings.

Okay a piece fell off, but then what happened? Did the hub seize up? There's only three choices: it turned okay, it turned but not easily, it wouldn't turn. Choose one.

And before you reply, go here: New Posters - please READ THIS. I rather suspect that you don't understand the part names you're using.

It would not engage at all. When I pedaled, the crank just spun around and the back wheel would not turn.

It sounds like the freehub is giving you trouble. No personal experience but a lot of people have criticized the Mavic hub constructions having only two pawls etc. Especially slightly older wheels have problems with premature worn freehub pawls. Anyway, here is a video regarding how to diagnose and clean Mavic freehubs:

http://roguemechanic.typepad.com/rog...echanic-m.html


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