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As I couldn't find any good pics of the internals of a shimano freehub body...I thought I'd take an old one apart...like you do! I'm the guy with that freehub/rim thingy idea.....I couldn't stop myself!

Well one pawl had turned to dust leaving only the two, the tiny, er` `spring` had snapped and the ratchet was missing some teeth...which is nice!

No great surprise for a lot of you I know, just thought some shimano user might want to see, and laugh, and cry!

I'm saving for a ProII, what a leap in technology that will be! (Y)

I just thought of something! er`, on shimano's the pawls are fixed and the ratchet turns, where as Hopes work the other way round, fixed ratchet....does this make any difference? Not in making Hopes the better hub, just in the general design? :closedeyes:

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Forgive the fairly useless post! ;)

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Forgive the fairly useless post! ;)

Useless!! i think not, really interesting to see the big s do thinge the other way around to the majority of manufacturers, the depth of the ratchet and the size of the pawls makes it no suprise that they don't last very long when used for trials.

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They only come with two pawls, when i had a budget, i used to service my shimano hub weekly so it would'nt slip, and it only had two, until i drilled and filed a third one in, it died a week later though. Good hubs if you wanna take it apart more than it's together and would rather walk than ride ;)

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They only come with two pawls,

Woot, your right!

The bits of metal I found in there, had to be the ratchet teeth then!

Here is a picture of the pawls carriers....looked like three, don't know what the third one/thing is for though?

Do they engage at the same time or are they offset? :unsure:

It get's worse! :P

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Is it so that the pawls are offset to each other so they engage one at a time or something, then the other bits to make it light?

f**k, let's face it - it's Shimano. They were probably just bored and decided to dick around with a hub...

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