 So I'm at the front of Taylor Cycles in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, because Jay Taylor, the store owner, is about to pull apart these windspace carbon Chinese wheels that I purchased at the back end of last year, because I've been having some issues with the rear wheel, notably sounds coming from the hub bearings. We're not exactly sure, but we're about to find out if you want the full story, I'll link it up there. But let's get into this video. All right, so the first thing Jay is gonna do is he's gonna try and replicate the issue. So he's gonna take the zip wheels off the bike, which he's doing now, put on the windspace hyper wheels, put the cassette back on, take it for a ride, replicate the issue, and then we're gonna try and get the bottom of what's going on. Thing, you've got all these holes, all the winds going in here. One watt, one watt, one watt, one watt, one watt. That's two watts, isn't it? First thing Jay is going is going on some different rotors, so we can mitigate using these adapters, which weight about an additional 100 grams. The reason why people can't change tires on tripless wheels is because they don't DB the tire first. And that's what you'll see me do with this. You know, DB, you ready? Yep, one, two, three. DB it all the way around, I can feel it loose now. Five, six, seven. These are uni directions, so it makes it easy. 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 16 seconds, round of applause. We don't use compressors here. Oh, again. That's bizarre that these wheels are quicker. That's way heavier. This is a bit, not many people do this, really important. Okay. And that's giving, yeah. You free her body, a decent grease. Just stops it from creaking if it's greased up. Now make sure this is locked in. I've seen quite a few times them where they're off on an angle like that, and the bottom cog will actually go like this. And you're trying to tune the gears in the 11-tooth and the chains go, blah, blah, blah, blah. Simply put in it, right little spot like that. Now you've got plenty of grease in there now for this to go in. And this has got to be nice and tight. This break bike's creak is you've got all these contact points, this bike's got a metal ring in there. It's got a metal on metal over here. It's just more contact points that can create a creak. So you want to grease these bits, axles dry. So you're going to make sure you've got any of grease on that thread. Is this your slick honey grease? No, this is my really thick stuff. Lotto-sadel-silicon grease. Cool thing about these 1x derailleur, is it's got a nifty little lock, because the clutch is so strong, but it's got a nifty little lock there, which makes the derailleur really loose. Put it on the 11-tooth, because you've got it in the easiest gear. Wallah, straight into the back of the bike. 10 newton-meters, which is basically exactly where I had it, which is tight. What you're going to see is, it amazes me that so many bike brands are still just recommending lock-tied on things, because it's always going to bind up before it's tight enough. A fantastic indication that this axle has never been tight enough, but now it is, because of the grease, is the gears have gone out, unless you tune them to that other wheel. No, they've done the same. Yeah, if not, it's, you can see, it's actually the bottom set screw. It goes that much further, either, to get rid of that noise. Yeah, but who fix it? And who told you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, come on, mate. Just give me some credit, mate. Just give me some credit. I've only been doing this for 26 bloody years. What do you mean, do you reckon? So I just get some pedals on, because Jai's about to take it for a spin around the block. That's it. Can you say that on video? But fine. I've got a Jail. Finally. Finally. You have a feeling that the noise is going to be gone just because the... What you've done, mate. The axle is greased. And it still wasn't right, mate. That's a steep error. What is that? 10%? No noise. No noise? It's a good indication, because I pulled that free hub slightly apart, but that's what it is. Probably not a lot of grease in it from the factory, so we'll pull it apart and have a look. Okay. What about the spokes? The tension in the spokes. Can that be an issue? It can be, but... What's the tension like on those spokes? Very high, so it would be unlikely. How do you test the spoke tension? With a spoke tension meter. Yeah, they're up over 15. You'd be able to talk to the manufacturer and see what they meant to be, but they're very, very tight. So that's not going to be causing the issue, I think. No. I think it's gonna... Which is hardly any grease on these little pulls here, so it's pretty dry. Where's it dry? All these little pulls. There should be a lot more grease in between this, so there's so many of these pulls that when they engage, if there's not enough grease, they can make a big cracking noise. That's exactly what's been happening. Yep, so... So you reckon it's that? Yeah, 100%. That's what it'll be. So will it happen when you just do a little test in, you won't notice it down on a little test like that? No, I didn't get it, but the thru-axle was probably done up properly. I'll leave you to your YouTube video. All right, see you, mate. Is that going viral, I suppose? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some of this video's got over 500,000. Someone got over 500,000. I'm gonna tell everyone what you said about the bike. So that's it? Yeah, they're dry. And there's so many pulls, it'll make a horrible cracking noise if they're not greased. So is that common for you to get that out of a, you know, straight out of a manufacturer? Yes. So what do you do? How much grease should put in there? Just a little bit of grease. Okay. Again, I go to my old faithful. If they weren't tight springs, you can overdo it and the springs can stick. So you don't, you wanna make sure that they're greased, but they're gonna pop back up. You can put a fair bit of grease in there. There's not even any grease under these springs. See that one sticking? Now it's got a lot of grease under there. Kinda. You just wanna make sure they're not gonna stick. Yep, we're gonna grease in there as well. Just a little bit of grease. You don't want too much grease. Like you wanna, you know, get all the extra grease out of there. Even though it looks like an easy enough job, it still can be pretty fiddly. So if a hub does have lots of sticking pulls like that, because I've put so much grease in there, you can just get some really nice thick wet grease and just put it under these springs. It'll just mix with the grease a little bit and just, you can see now, they're just snapping up really nice. Could slow the wheel down a little bit, having that much resistance from that many pulls. Most road hubs only have three. Some hubs you need to take the cassette off because the seal needs to be pushed in place but this one just drops in. So I already checked that before when the cassette was on. So I know that it doesn't need to be pushed in place. That sounds a lot healthier now. Is there any other possible areas it could be coming from outside of what you've basically done? Well, you've basically covered all bases. Yeah. Yep, the cassette's tight and greased. The axles greased and tight. The pulls are now all greased up. Look at that. No rub. Heaps of room. Fix the problem is room race. Ha ha ha! Well said. Very well said. Except for that two bucket sand there at the end. Yeah, there's just the new rotors. Yeah. There's just a bit of water in that it'll set those straight in. Yeah. All right. Do you want to lie down? Well done. Yep. Thank you. That one's perfect. So to round out this video, I've just done 150 kilometers on the windspace to prove it to you. And absolutely no sounds whatsoever. I'll put up exactly what Jay did up on the screen and we'll catch you in the next video.