Making hubs super loud ?

[freakonaleash]

Whats the trick to it ? Heard something about stretching pawl springs ? Ive got an old commuter bike, and its a little quiet, i wanna be heard when im commuting :P

[tFly]

Run minimal grease in it. Better yet, how about some sand, that should work right? Right?

[Robot]

clip hockey cards into your spokes. way cooler.

[HIBuLlitT]

buy a bell

[schoenrock]

ride a norco

[.Robinson]

pop rocks

[M13]

Ride more, my hadley was very quiet then I rode abit then it became an attention whore.

[0_o]

Fill it with nitrogen.













All jokes aside. Loud hubs are straight up annoying.

[kalisto]

All jokes aside. Loud hubs are straight up annoying.
For most, they either love it or hate it...

[GeoffG]

ride a norco

Bahaha:lol:

[M13]

Fill it with nitrogen.













All jokes aside. Loud hubs are straight up annoying.




Ahaha, love it!

Loud hubs can be annoying after awhile, but still it gets the heads turning. :r:

[tFly]

I'm kinda in a glass house on this one, my ringle is fucking loud, but i didn't modify it to make it that way.

[0_o]

Ahaha, love it!

Loud hubs can be annoying after awhile, but still it gets the heads turning. :r:

Different people ride for different reasons.

I like being invisible in the city/woods.

[freakonaleash]

Yeh.. Anyways how can I do it ? Ive got the minimal greese, and it still aint loud enough. How would i make this thing sound like a machine gun ?

[freerider-1]

Different people ride for different reasons.

I like being invisible in the city/woods.

I'd think it'd be safer to be loud and visible in the city, on account of all the cars around.

[0_o]

I'd think it'd be safer to be loud and visible in the city, on account of all the cars around.

Great thinking at work here.

When I'm driving I can barely hear the car next to me let alone a hub from a bicycle.

[0_o]

And grease those hubs people. They're getting louder for a reason and that reason isn't a good one.

[freakonaleash]

I want loud ! How HOW ! !! haha

[the flying moose]

I like being invisible in the city/woods.

kind of hard to maintain invisibility wearing assless chaps while riding.

[0_o]

kind of hard to maintain invisibility wearing assless chaps while riding.

You must have me mistaken for The Discoman.

[tFly]

I want loud ! How HOW ! !! haha
It's gonna depend on the hub, most just will not make the noise you're after, you'll have to pony up for something like a ringle or hadley (or king, but they have more of a buzz to them, the other 2 are more machine gun like).

[BareFootMeshback]

you should take a look at the airhorn that mec sells or at least did sell at one point. I dont have one, but the clown horn my girlfriend bought me for my city commuter has been great, I almost gave a woman a heart attack after she cut me off in those round about things on 10th.

[skifreak]

Ahaha, love it!

Loud hubs can be annoying after awhile, but still it gets the heads turning. :r:

not loud but any of those like 108 point or whatever hubs are quite interesting to hear

[HIBuLlitT]

Yeh.. Anyways how can I do it ? Ive got the minimal greese, and it still aint loud enough. How would i make this thing sound like a machine gun ?
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The only time I really hear my hub is when I'm in the air, and I like the buzzzz.

[Lady Gravity]

my rear hub has gone really silent. click click...nada
i should probably rebuild it but for now i'm ok with it

[sanrensho]

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[schoenrock]

my rear hub has gone really silent. click click...nada
sounds like your rear hub needs some greese:lol:

[freakonaleash]

Nice Sanrensho


I heard something about stretching the springs on the pawls. How would i go about that ?

[baloom]

how do you keep from shooting yourself in the head after about 1 block of riding a bike that sounds like a machinegun?

[biggles604]

ride a norco
Mine is dead silent. My Fox 36s springs rattling is the only noise it makes. I miss riding on my Hadley :)

[sanrensho]

Nice Sanrensho

Anything to help a fella out...

[pete]

On most hubs you can't actually open the freewheel to get at the "pawl springs" you're talking about. Unless it's a $200+ hub it's not rebuildable.

[M13]

On my old Hadley, the spring wore out and I stretched it then heated it quickly/then immersed it in cold water to make it more stiff. It really made the hub loud, but then again I was waiting for a rebuild kit at the time. The new kit made the hub even louder.

If you are really wanting hub noise, buy a 200+ hub. guaranteed noise. No way in hell you will get a 50 bux hub to sound like that w/o something terrible going on.

[freakonaleash]

Thanks Pete and M13 !

[Lady Gravity]

sounds like your rear hub needs some greese:lol:

what time should i bring it over?

[freakonaleash]

Shoen, Cant Greese a Freehub :P

[SkunkworkS]

Shoen, Cant Greese a Freehub :P

Nothing's impossible when one wants to make their hub "louder" so they'll be heard by other commuters...

Get a bell, or an air horn.