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Chris King Hub Advice


Matt Vandart

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I'm contemplating getting a Chris King ISO hub and I have a few questions:

1: Do regular shimano/sram cassettes fit.

2: What is "Bedding in"? and how do you go about it?

3: They cost an Effin fortune so I want to look after it, what sort of maintenance routine should I do?

Thanks Dudes.

Matt

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I'm contemplating getting a Chris King ISO hub and I have a few questions:

1: Do regular shimano/sram cassettes fit.

2: What is "Bedding in"? and how do you go about it?

3: They cost an Effin fortune so I want to look after it, what sort of maintenance routine should I do?

Thanks Dudes.

Matt

Yes

Bedding in is the process of using the hub for a few hundred miles in regular conditions, eg on an xc bike, just putting the miles into it to get all the splines worn (bedded) in to each other, if you don't do this you could end up killing your hub riding trials on it.

Check out "Tarty Adams King Service" vid if you can find it. Ideally you just wanna take the drive shell off every few months, clean the splines with a toothbrush and make sure everything is lightly lubed. Once a year or so send it off to Tarty to get them to service it, and you'll be fine.

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No offence to tarty but i sent my king off to them and it tried to kill me. I service it myself now.

yeah i seen that but ive seen kings serviced by tarty and they were amazing!

they did nearly kill reece though

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Hardly tarts fault that kings are temprimental... you don't send something to tarty and they sprinkle magic dust on and make it work perfectly forever.

Crap i better get rid of the green tights, angry pirate and the fairy.

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