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Another Freehub problem!
#1
Hello everyone, please go gentle on me as I am new to all of this!
I have a specialized Secteur which I use for a long commute, and so far have done about 1700 miles on it

Today whilst cleaning I noticed that the cassette did not freely freewheel when spun backwards; if a reasonable amount of force is applied (emulated resting pedals whilst rolling at relative speed) the cassette freewheels reasonably well.
But when using a slight amount of force the cassette does not budge.
In retrospect I have noticed a couple of occasions upon riding when the chain has bunched up whilst ‘freewheelin’ but put these rare occasions down to a stiff link in the chain.

I rode it home this morning and it seemed to run fine so I cannot work out why suddenly after a bit of non invasive cleaning it would be rendered almost totally useless.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

Harry
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#2
Well, you said the problem was there already, so it is not that surprising. Could be a gunked up freehub, see the other thread.
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