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Submitted by
Rekibsn
a Racer
from North Vancouver, BCDate Reviewed: April 8, 2010
Strengths: Sure looks nice.Weaknesses: Lasted 4 minutes and failed miserably.Bottom Line: Syncros make some really good products but these hubs are doing them no good at all. I resisted believing the bad press and went ahead and bought two hubs anyway. Silly me. This one lasted 200 yards and I had to walk home. The free-wheel just failed and now it is free in both directions.
Anyone want to buy my other hub...New in box....never built up...cheap....???
Favorite Trail: The Dirty one
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$150.00
Similar Products Used: Loads....Shimano, Suntour, Mavic.
Bike Setup: XC Bike and CX
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James Flynn
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from Coventry, UKDate Reviewed: November 3, 2001
Strengths: Light
Looks nice
Easy to service/maintainWeaknesses: Engagement, feels weak and with only 16 clicks per revolution, it doesn't satisfy me (Me is a trials rider)Bottom Line: I don't really know who should buy this hub, they say its bombproof enough for DH but it certainly does't feel that way to me, it hasn't got the strength or the engagement points to be a trials hub and XC riders can get better hubs. Hmm... This hubs abit of a loser, I don't recommend it. Just to annoy you all, I ordered a Chris King Classic rear hub last week so that should soon replace the Syncros.
Favorite Trail: Local trials spots in Coventry
Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid:
$150.00
Purchased At: Broadribbs, Leamington
Similar Products Used: several Shimano models
Hope Bulb
Coda 200
Diatech Disc
Bike Setup: Cortina Dual Frame, Orange trials forks... Oh sod it! Just take a look right here.
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Tobi
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from Germany !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Date Reviewed: February 14, 2001
Weaknesses: NOT VERY STIFF !!!!!!
Only for x-country !Bottom Line: I had very much trouble with this Hub:
The axle had play and the Bearings got broken.
B U Y E V E R Y T H I N G F R O M S Y N C R O S , B U T
N O T T H E H U B S ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Duration Product Used: 6 months
Similar Products Used: Shimano STX
Bike Setup: Syncros + Race Face
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Jim Kramer
a Cross Country Rider
from Marion, Iowa USADate Reviewed: August 23, 2000
Strengths: None.Weaknesses: Too much play, water contamination to bearings, many other problems.Bottom Line: Blows, good thing you can not buy them anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A real suprise considering the quality of their other products.
Favorite Trail: Surgar Bottom
Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Price Paid:
$189.00
Purchased At: Hall Bicycles
Similar Products Used: NA
Bike Setup: Gripshift - Good stuff.
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Teg
a Cross-Country Rider
from Toronto, OntarioDate Reviewed: January 9, 2000
Bottom Line: I have had similar problems as the rest. Lots of play, poor design, and I even snapped the axle. I also have the front hub, and it performs flawlessly. Real dissapointement, considering the rest of their components are great.
Duration Product Used:
1 Year
Similar Products Used:
XTR
STX
Bike Setup:
Full syncros
XT/XTR
Marzocchi Z3 light
Trek Alpha Alum
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Clayton Covemaker
a Racer
from Carbondale, ILDate Reviewed: November 15, 1999
Bottom Line: Everyone is welcome to the own opinion but I have nothing but praise for this hub set I am a 225 pound nightmare on equipment I ride hard and I have not had a single thing go wrong with them. The only thing bad that has happened to them this the aluminum freehub shell got nicked up by some over enthusiastic shop employees but other than that everything is fine.
Favorite Trail:
Cedar Lake
Duration Product Used:
1 Year
Similar Products Used:
Shimano LX (97&99)
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derek
a Cross-Country Rider
from saskatoon, saskatchewanDate Reviewed: September 29, 1999
Strengths:
nice looking, sounds goodWeaknesses:
the bearings are always loosening up, which is no surprise since reading the reviews. I wish i would have read them BEFORE i bought the hub. Also once and a while the freehub doesnt engage properly and skips a notch. That sucks too. I thought syncros was always such good stuff, but not anymore. I only way 140lb, and ride on the praries, how much less abused can a hub get. I wouldnt recommend this hub to anyone. I would just like to say, go for a shimano, they are heavier, but trouble free. My XT hub gets ridden everyday on my winter bike through the worst of the worst and it is still alive. I dont even think i will try any warrenty stuff, just wait for next season and a set of XTR hubs. Maybe i should ride the syncros this winter and see how long it lasts.Bottom Line: Its a no good piece of crap made by a respectable Canadian company. Canadian EH, it embarrases me.
Duration Product Used:
3 months
Similar Products Used:
xt, white industries
Bike Setup:
brodie soveriegn
xtr cook bros
z2 atom bomb
worn out syncros hubs w/mavi 517 rims
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mike
a Racer
from washington.dcDate Reviewed: September 17, 1999
Strengths:
noneWeaknesses:
expensive piece of crap..no customer service..axle comes loose..freehub spring broke..Bottom Line: I bought a syncros wheelset a year ago and have nothing but trouble out of the rearhub...the front hub and rims are fine..the rear hub was loose when new..finally after tightening it 5-6 times it held..then the spring that keeps the pawls for the freehub in place broke..little bits of the broken spring locked up the hub..had that fixed now the hub is loose again...syncros should stick to making things with no moving parts...I've got a 3 year old lx hub that I've beaten the sh*t out of that works better than this thing..
Favorite Trail:
accotink
Duration Product Used:
1 Year
Similar Products Used:
xtr..xt..lx
Bike Setup:
m2..manitou carbon
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Tom
a Cross-Country Rider
from Cooksville, MDDate Reviewed: September 17, 1999
Strengths:
relatively trouble freeWeaknesses:
Axle nut on drive side needs to be checked every couple rides ro tightness.Bottom Line: Well, I heard there were some problems with some of these hubs, but I guess I,m one of the two guys out there that has had good luck with them. When they were new, I had to check the drive side axle nut and retorque it to 60 in. lbs. I still check them but it is infrequent that I have to retorque them. I have pulled them apart two times to grease the bearings but that was just PM. I use these hub for most of my XC riding and the really rocky races that I compete in. I don't baby them, I use them for the really epic rides. One thing I learned from the original White Ind. hubs is that after a ride or two the bearings set and you have to re-tension them no matter who the mfr. is. Just because it a sealed crtrigde bearing does not mean you can ride and forget normal maintenance. I used some Chris King hubs on my 'cross bike and after a particularly wet race (read torrential downpour)I pulled the rear hub apart and check the bearings. One of them (the drive side hub bearing) had muddy water run out of it. This bearing seal is exsposed to elements where as all of the syncros bearings have some kind of shield that mud and water have to work thru to contaminate the bearings.I have use many of their products and have been satisfied with all of them. Their headset is every bit as good as King's. I might get godsmacked the next time I ride these hubs, but I would give them two thunbs up.
Favorite Trail:
Frederick, MD wate shed
Duration Product Used:
1 Year
Similar Products Used:
Chris King's
White Industry originals
White Ind. Speed Racers
Paul's SS hubs
Bike Setup:
Litespeed w/ SX carbon
Ventana Habanero w/ Zoke Z-1
Indy Fab Planet X
Spot w/ Judy SL w/ White Bro. springs
Outback cro. mo. w/ SX-Ti
853 road bike
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Mark
a Cross-Country Rider
from Tampa, FLDate Reviewed: August 24, 1999
Strengths:
looksWeaknesses:
SLOPPY BEARINGSBottom Line: My hub sucks as much as everyone elses. I can't even ride it anymore. only had it six months and wish i read these reviews first. I don't think much more needs to be said.
Favorite Trail:
flatwoods
Duration Product Used:
6 months
Similar Products Used:
xt, crosslands
Bike Setup:
FSR, sun Oxc, black spokes, alloy nips.(looks cool anyways)
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Derek
a Weekend Warrior
from B.C. CanadaDate Reviewed: July 4, 1999
Strengths:
Looks goodWeaknesses:
Excessive unremovable play.Bottom Line: Syncros needs a product support! Attempts to contact them were futile, and the solution to there defective hub was to trade for another persons product of equal value. So I did what I thought was best, I payed a little more and bought King hubs. I'll rate them 1 chille just because I got my $$ out of them.
Favorite Trail:
All of them
Duration Product Used:
less than 1 month
Similar Products Used:
Wheels of all sorts.
Bike Setup:
Rocky Mountain Element
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Keith Thompson
a Cross-Country Rider
from St. Catharines, OntarioDate Reviewed: July 1, 1999
Strengths:
At least it looks kinda cool.Weaknesses:
I am a bike mechanic here and when I first received my rear hub out of the box it had massive amount of drag. So much that my chain was hitting my rear wheel. I was sent THREE more with the same problem, so finally I got fed up with the run-around from Jason Haycock in warranty at Syncros that I built the last one they sent me only to find out that 40 min. into my ride that the freaking freehub body broke away from the actual hub. I almost killed myself! I would not recomend this hub or any other Syncros product on even my worse enemy!Bottom Line: This product may be Canadian and have a warranty, but the quality as well as the warranty is garbage!! Even with the warranty in hand, you are just politely pushed aside hoping to go away.
Favorite Trail:
Short Hills
Duration Product Used:
less than 1 month
Similar Products Used:
Rolf, Shimano's XTR.
Bike Setup:
'98 Trek 8900 custom build.
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Submitted by
Michiel Beumer
a Weekend Warrior
from VenloDate Reviewed: June 9, 1999
Strengths:
great sound!Weaknesses:
axleBottom Line: this rear hub sucks, 3 weeks after purchasing I was biking along with my granny and from out of nothing I hear a bang, the moment after I almost knock my teeth out as Islam into the asphalt .
It appeared the axle broke and got stuck!You can probably understand why I hate this hub.
Favorite Trail:
downhill
Duration Product Used:
less than 1 month
Similar Products Used:
Dt Hügi
Bike Setup:
steel hardtail with obsys40
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Tom
a Racer
from TorontoDate Reviewed: May 8, 1999
Bottom Line: This HUB is dangerous, My third one within a year seized while I was riding it, almost running me into a tree. This hub is gone and am now trying a Chris King Hub. DO NOT BUY THIS HUB!!!!!
Duration Product Used:
6 months
Bike Setup:
Wheeler Titanium E11
Manitou Mach 5 Forks
USE Suspension seat post.
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Submitted by
Justin
a cross-country rider
from UtahDate Reviewed: February 20, 1999
Bottom Line:
Well kids, I spoke too soon. My Syncros rear hub has now developed play which will not disappear. We'll see what happens I guess. Any suggestions TO FIX this hub other than replacing with a Hugi or a King?
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