Joined Oct 2012
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Belgium brugge
About a year or so ago I destroyed my kite (non cush drive) hub because sprocket bolts came loose.
I temporarily fixed it by drilling the oval 8mm holes to almost 10 and threaded the holes now I can still use the hub.
Downside is I also have to adjust al rear sprockets to make it fit and changing a rear sprocket is a lot of work (use longer bolts with locktite and nylon locknuts on the back of the hub and first have the adjusted rear spr).
Now there are a few options when my chainkit needs to be replaced:
-drill all holes to 10mm and get some spacers machined with outer diameter 10 inner 8 that fit perfectly flush in the hub this way I can use stock sprockets/bolts without any adjusting.
-Keep using the method I am using now and adjust the rear sprockets (cheapest option but don't like it)
-Buy new hub prefer a cush drive because on my rebuild gears where damaged maybe this was just because of the incident of the bolts that came loose but maybe not.
The bike has over 60 hp on the wheel so it puts some stress on the drive shaft/hub I think for durability cush drive would be better but I mailed some company's who sell hubs and they can't even replace it on my wheel because it's a tubeless system that needs different spokes so I probably would have to send my rear wheel+new hub to alpina to get it done...
Most aftermarket wheel company's don't even offer rear wheel with cush drive because it would not be necessary on mx/supermoto
(but my bike puts out +10hp compared to average supermoto bike and it's possible I want even more power in future )
I temporarily fixed it by drilling the oval 8mm holes to almost 10 and threaded the holes now I can still use the hub.
Downside is I also have to adjust al rear sprockets to make it fit and changing a rear sprocket is a lot of work (use longer bolts with locktite and nylon locknuts on the back of the hub and first have the adjusted rear spr).
Now there are a few options when my chainkit needs to be replaced:
-drill all holes to 10mm and get some spacers machined with outer diameter 10 inner 8 that fit perfectly flush in the hub this way I can use stock sprockets/bolts without any adjusting.
-Keep using the method I am using now and adjust the rear sprockets (cheapest option but don't like it)
-Buy new hub prefer a cush drive because on my rebuild gears where damaged maybe this was just because of the incident of the bolts that came loose but maybe not.
The bike has over 60 hp on the wheel so it puts some stress on the drive shaft/hub I think for durability cush drive would be better but I mailed some company's who sell hubs and they can't even replace it on my wheel because it's a tubeless system that needs different spokes so I probably would have to send my rear wheel+new hub to alpina to get it done...
Most aftermarket wheel company's don't even offer rear wheel with cush drive because it would not be necessary on mx/supermoto
(but my bike puts out +10hp compared to average supermoto bike and it's possible I want even more power in future )