Loud Rear Hub

[Blackknight]

Hey I like loud hubs you feel like a baller on rims when you roll up with some loud clicking

Where can I buy the loudest hubs?

[KGB]

Buy any hub, strip the freeeheel and degrease, then lube with the lightest oil you can find.
Then be prepared to repeat the process every time the bike gets wet.
Campag and Chris King are both reasonably loud but different sounds.

Is this a serious thread?

[MattyK]

On the flipside, what are the quietest hubs?

[bychosis]

On the flipside, what are the quietest hubs?

Fixie hubs

[jacks1071]

On the flipside, what are the quietest hubs?

You can make most of them nearly silent with the right grease and regular servicing.

[cage]

[Duck!]

On the flipside, what are the quietest hubs?

You can make most of them nearly silent with the right grease and regular servicing.

Some hubs are inherently louder than others due to the design of the ratchet interface. Hubs with the ratchet pawls mounted on the butt of the freewheel body & engaging in the matching track inside the hub shell (Campagnolo, Zipp & Novatech to name just three use this design) are louder than designs such as Shimano where the ratchets are fully contained inside the freewheel body, which is then bolted to the hub shell.

[Blackknight]

Thanks KGB - yeah it is a serious thread in the sense that my query was genuine.

[holywater]

Thanks KGB - yeah it is a serious thread in the sense that my query was genuine.

Hope hubs are probably louder than most.

[CXCommuter]

Thanks KGB - yeah it is a serious thread in the sense that my query was genuine.

Hope hubs are probably louder than most.

I can confirm Hope Hubs are loud and angry- I understand some of the DT hubs are pretty loud also. It seems a lot of the aftermarket hubs are the loudest/angriest

[Bentnose]

I have Hope hubs and find people leap out of the way when they hear you coming, even at low speeds, I'm used to them now and don't really notice the noise.

[Baalzamon]

Yep I've just got some hope pro evo 2 hubs n they are nice n loud and I haven't even laced them into a wheel yet

[}SkOrPn--7]

Hope hubs the loudest I have had so far by a country mile.....

Ricky

[m@]

Crank Brothers are pretty loud... until you ride in the wet and they gum up and become silent

[Fresh]

DT240 hubs with 36T star ratchet "upgrade." People will hear you coming from miles away.

[open roader]

No grade of grease could tame the TWE Premier freehub I once rode with ....... positively rude on social rides.........

[AUbicycles]

Giant own-brand wheels have a loud freehub. It has a whirring sound (rather than a constant clicking sound).

A number of issues have been reported, while mine were fine, I rarely ride them and prefer better wheelsets with a quieter freehub.

[Calvin27]

Hey I like loud hubs you feel like a baller on rims when you roll up with some loud clicking

Where can I buy the loudest hubs?

You might sound cool cruising along, but a loud hub means you can't sneak up on people, draft them to recover and then smash past them looking like you gave it zero effort.

[KGB]

You can if you pedal...

[silentbutdeadly]

You can if you pedal...

...which kind of limits the 'need' for a noisy ratchet engagement in any hub. Besides who want's to pedal?

Hadley's are noisy during freewheeling and CK's aren't quiet either. On the other hand, White Industries hubs are pleasantly and smoothly ticket-y.

[lobstermash]

I've got a set of Campy Khamsins that are wonderfully loud. Very useful for navigating through the Floriade zombie apocalypse. But I get punished when I'm drafting (we're talking consensual drafting, of course...) and don't quite time the pedals right, usually on the left side dead spot of the stroke, giving off a couple of stuttered clicks and generally resulting in a rapid burst of pace from the rider in front.

[KGB]

I greased mine up when I replaced the bearings in my Khamsins. It was near silent for the first couple of hundred km and and settled in to a quiet level now. I can't decide whether its good or not!