wonderloaf
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OK, maybe I'll try oil first then!
Anything wrong with this grease?
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Gravity Aided
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I didn't see much on cassettes and hubs.
slowmotion
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Automotive greases should be fine. They are designed for rotational speeds of thousands of rpm, and elevated temperatures. The requirements of a cycling grease are trivial in comparison. I have a cartridge of Castrol LMX that cost buttons. Cycle-specific lubes are an utter marketing-driven rip off.
LMX is now discontinued but my stash should see me out. There are loads of alternative automotive lithium greases about. If you want, you can buy 12.5kg for £61. Eat your heart out CycleSurgery.
LMX is now discontinued but my stash should see me out. There are loads of alternative automotive lithium greases about. If you want, you can buy 12.5kg for £61. Eat your heart out CycleSurgery.
Gravity Aided
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With cassette, of course, this would all be done to the cassette body on the hub, after you take the cassette off. Do remember to grease the hub bearings while you are at it, but gears get oil, bearings get grease, or so I was told. The reason is because the freewheel or cassette freewheel in only one direction, governed by pawls, and you don't want those pawl springs getting all gummed up.
mrbikerboy73
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I've been using some grease specifically for the construction of vacuum pumps on my bikes for the last few years after a tube of it somehow fell into my bag at work. Seems to do the job 
wonderloaf
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Well I've just taken the freehub off and taken a look at the cup and cones under a 10x eye loupe 
The freehub side cup and cone look like the surface of the moon so new freehub, cone and bearings are needed. Thankfully the cup, cone and bearings on the other side look fine so at least I'm not going to need a new wheel hub ... phew! The thing is that I have just realised that I put these wheels on just after Xmas so have only done ~1k miles on them ... at this rate I'm going to be changing these parts a couple of times a year or is it all down to the lube strategy?
The freehub side cup and cone look like the surface of the moon so new freehub, cone and bearings are needed. Thankfully the cup, cone and bearings on the other side look fine so at least I'm not going to need a new wheel hub ... phew! The thing is that I have just realised that I put these wheels on just after Xmas so have only done ~1k miles on them ... at this rate I'm going to be changing these parts a couple of times a year or is it all down to the lube strategy?
