Need a new freehub
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SlidingSideways

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1,345 posts

261 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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My free hub has become a little too free and now happily freewheels both directions.
Have removed the offending article, but can't see any part numbers to source a replacement.
Can anyone identify a suitable replacement from these pics?
It's off a cheap Ammaco mountain bike, nothing exotic.
I'd like something a bit more robust if possible as this crapped itself on it first outing on anything more challenging than a canal path and left me stranded halfway round Cannock Chase frown

Cheers.





Edited by SlidingSideways on Saturday 29th April 14:29

gazza285

11,111 posts

237 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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Looks vaguely Novatec, but that means nothing. These tend to be hub specific, so with it being an unbranded OEM hub, there's no easy way to tell what would replace it. You could try the importer, but it would probably be easier, less hassle, and more reliable to buy a cheap replacement wheel from Halfords or your LBS.

The Ammaco bikes tend to be at the bottom of the market, I'd be selling it on or scrapping it, and spending a bit more on a much nicer bike.

SlidingSideways

Original Poster:

1,345 posts

261 months

Sunday 30th April 2017
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Cheers for that, was starting to think that might be the case. A tour of the local bike shops (including the one it was bought from) had drawn a blank.

Will take a look at wheels.

battered

4,088 posts

176 months

Sunday 30th April 2017
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If it's just a cheap bike then new wheel. Or buy a hub. When I had a shimano fw go down years ago I had to buy a hub and strip the fw from it, you couldn't get just the fw part.