Changing my Hubs....

[lee.leggett]

OK, So i am looking for a set of wheels with the newer push on rear hub, I have a wheel now with a push on fitting for the rear gears. (but i only have the rear)

I have a set of wheels from another bike which have a screw on fitting. How easy is it to change the hub fitting?

I need to remove it from the old wheel and new wheel and then try and replace it.

Any help please...

 

[FluffyChicken]

I'm lost, newer hum, what sort of year late retro 97-ish ?

Still never heard of push-on wheels. :?


EDIT/ sudden thought ... are you on about the rear cogs.. as in
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/k7.html
Have a read there, you need a completely different hub.

 

[lee.leggett]

OK right sorry...

This is the hub type i want...

At present my rear gears fit on over the bearings and there is a small nut type screw that then hold the rear gears on.

I have a rear wheel now with the newer type hub as shown in the photo.

How easy is it to change the Hubs ???

 

[FluffyChicken]

That in your picture is a Freehub body specific to a certain type of hub
If you have 'screw on' and wish to 'cassette' then you cannot.
If you mean you're using say a shimano hub with cassette and want to put a freehub body above on it, you cannot.


If you mean switch the whole hub over then you have to unlace the rim, possibly buy new spokes and find someone to re-lace the wheel. (or do it yourself)



Again please read this and get to know the parts of what you are talking about
And post actual pictures to clarify
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/k7.html

Why not just run the rear wheel you want 'push on' with the other front wheel, the rear does not care what the front it ?
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maybe something like this would help you get the terms and names
http://www.icelord.net/bike/Illustrated ... enance.htm

and what era of bike/hub are we talking ?

 

[lee.leggett]

I have thought about using the wheel with the new hub and cassette, but the spoke pattern is different. Plus i want the bike to match, personal pref i think.

I have been quoted £25.00 but our local bike shop to unlace and relace the wheel again using the new hub and cassette, but thought i would find out if its a hard job, before i sent it in to them or had ago myself.

 

[dbmtb]

Not being harsh, but if your bike knowledge is so far so limited that you still don't know the correct terms for your hardware, then I doubt it would be a good idea to start building your own wheels.

Get the pros in. It'll be cheaper in the long run. Wheelbuilding is very easy to do - but also very easy to do wrong.

 

[FluffyChicken]

£25 is pretty cheap for somebody to build a wheel, let along take one to pieces and then rebuild it.
I would let them do it, as dbmtb says

Without little things like pictures and make/models of parts it's harder to advise anything more. (like if you'll need new spokes of a different length compared to what you have now) especially if the spoke pattern is changing.

 

[dyna-ti]

Our local wheel builder gets you to lace your own spokes then charges £8 for the true up
£25 :shock:
This must dis-spell the Scottish tightness myth