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OK whats wrong with them?

 

They seem a little too good to be true. I know the top range Hunt wheels have a good rep, but there’s less written about the lower range stuff.

Anyone have any experience with them?

Looking to pair them with Hutchinson Sector 28s.

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[ChancerOnABike]

I have he mason X 4 season on

I have he mason X 4 season on my commuter. I reckon i have done 3000kms on them with panniers without issue. Was impressed with them with the change they made to my boardman hybrid commuter, bike feels a lot faster and holds speed easier. For the cash i am really impressed 

[StraelGuy]

I’ve put almost exactly 5,000

I’ve put almost exactly 5,000 miles on my original Hunt Mason disc wheelset on my summer bike with zero issues at all. I’ve just replaced them with Hunt CAD 30 wheels which look amazing and are super light.

[kookenhaken]

jackfrost13 wrote:

jackfrost13 wrote:

Avoid. I have a pair of 4 season disc wheels. First rear wheel developed hair line cracks from spoke eyelets. Second wheel now has exactly the same issue. Also had to pay LBS you service freehub as wrong grease has been put in by Hunt. Before you ask….I weigh 73kg and am very particular about looking after my bikes….

I had the same issue on the rim brake version, I’d put it down to inexperience when I tried to true it myself.  Interesting to hear it’s happened a second time for you. 

[Anonymous]

Have had a set of Gravel disc

Have had a set of Gravel disc wheels for over a year now on a ‘gravel’ bike. have absolutely hammered them and even used them on my MTB for cross country riding. Faultless and true as the day they were purchased. For the price you can’t go wrong. Superb service too.

[jackfrost13]

Avoid. I have a pair of 4
Avoid. I have a pair of 4 season disc wheels. First rear wheel developed hair line cracks from spoke eyelets. Second wheel now has exactly the same issue. Also had to pay LBS you service freehub as wrong grease has been put in by Hunt. Before you ask….I weigh 73kg and am very particular about looking after my bikes….

[Zermattjohn]

I’ve had a pair of Gravel 4

I’ve had a pair of Gravel 4-Season Disc for about a year now. My experience of them is that they’re pretty good value, roll nicely and are great for crappy winter riding/basic gravel-ly type stuff. Their customer service is very good – you ring/email and they’ll pretty much offer to get a courier to come out and pick them up, or pay for the LBS work for any fix. This however seems to highlight the problem – it seems a lot of people have to have them looked at within the 1st year of ownership, so while their after-sales service is very good it does raise the question of the quality of the product leaving them in the 1st place….

Incidentally I have them paired with 35mm tubeless tyres (G-Ones on both at first, but the rear wore down stupidly fast so I have Hutchinson Overide 35mm on that now). Check with them that 28mm is a good fit – they’re pretty wide rims.

[BrokenBootneck]

Been using the dura disc

Been using the dura disc nearly everyday for a year. Had a free hub die. They sent a new one and had offered to pick up and sort for me. I have ran pro ones and sector 28s on them. 

 

Nothing but good things to say really. I have been around 90kgs and they have been bomb proof. 

 

Also so have the carbon 50mm lovely wheels but not used as extensively. 

[Cugel]

I bought some last autumn and

I bought some last autumn and they’ve just done over the first one thousand miles. Hunt shod them with Schwalbe G1 30mm tubeless and they’re in a Trek Domane 400 winterbike with mudguards et al.

As working wheels the 4-season disc wheels do seem both resilient and surprisingly “fast”. They get ridden over some seriously bad roads, in club rides where one does not always manage to avoid the pothole and other scabby-tarmac hits.  So far no sign of rim-warp, loose spoke or any other degradation. As another poster mentions, a multi-thousand mile test will confirm or deny their hardiness and suitability for the claimed four seasons (and awful British roads).

I do have some comments about their selling and after-sales service:

1  The dropouts on the Domane are 15mm front through axles with 12mm through axles at the back. This required the additional purchase of the required adaptors from Hunt. On the other hand, they included some redundant 6-bolt to spline disc mount adaptors and a pair of QR skewers that are reduntdant to me. I would rather that the wheel price included the axle parts required but not the other parts which are currently included in the single standard package for the wheelset.

2  When trying to mount an Ultegra 11-speed cassette on the Hunt 11-speed freehub, I found that the lockring had insufficient threads to achieve a secure hold (only about 3/4 of a thread). I complained to Hunt who said the problem was highly unusual but sent me a new freehub (free of charge) to try just in case I had a queer one. This had the same problem.

I eventually solved the problem by finding a non-Shimano lockring with a longer body, which is secure as there are more lockring threads to grab the internal threads of the Hunt freehub. I don’t know why the Shinamo lockring caused a problem. I measured the Hunt freehub dimensions against the standard 11-speed hub specification and they were correct to the 0.1mm. Other brands of 11-speed freehub I have do seem to have a tiny amount more of internal thread for the lockring, though. (Which makes them out-of-spec … but in a good way).

So far I would recommend Hunt 4-season wheels as high quality and very good value. I’m hoping this continues as the miles pile up this year.

Incidentally, I bought the Hunts to replace the Bontrager wheels that came with the Domane, on which I broke two spokes in the first year I had the bike; and could never quite get the wheels to run true thereafter.  Compared to the Hunts, the Bontragers were also a bit leaden, even with Schwalbe Ones mounted rather than the dull Bontrager tyres that came with the bike/wheels.

Cugel.

[Alaska]

I’ve just had some delivered
I’ve just had some delivered and fitted to my bike. Not had chance to use them yet due to weather.

[ugunt]

This comment comes late, I

This comment comes late, I had these weheels for 1.5 years. After less than a year the rim cracked when the bicyce stood in the shed in the cold. The warranty service was excellent though, I had the wheel back after about 10 days incl shipping.

But I keep replacing spokes on the rear wheel. They usually brake at the thread which is an indication that the socket for the nipple is not properly angled.  Also, the wheel sits not exactyl in the middle and the spoke tension on the drive side is massively higher then on the brake side. With a disc wheel this does not make sense as the brake forces are higher than the acceleration forces.

WIth a 28 tyre the tyrre is about tho touch the rim on the left. Therefore to rectfy this the imbalance of spoke tension would get even worse.

I am sorry to say, after 2 years  I would not buy these wheeels any more. They are not well designed, just well advertised. Unfortunatey people here post reviews after two rides and not after a few thousand miles when it shows how good a wheel really is.

[Anonymous]

Thanks
Thanks 🙂

[BrokenBootneck]

Dura disc owner and 50mm

Dura disc owner and 50mm carbon owner ,pro ones on both bloody lovely 90kg rider no issues and lots of miles done. 

[part_robot]

Another Hunt Aero Light Disc

Another Hunt Aero Light Disc (alloy) owner. Pre and post sales support from Hunt has been excellent; their support team are very knowledgeable and happily put up with all my questions. The wheels themselves perform well. Only used them for about 2000km so far but all signs point to them being a great purchase. Recommended.

[drosco]

Any better than the highly
Any better than the highly regarded Novatec CXD bar the more prestige sounding name?

[Anonymous]

I’ve had a pair of 4 seasons

I’ve had a pair of 4 seasons disc wheels for the last 12 months and have had absolutley no issue at all.

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