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Anyone got experience of them?
Runing Vento wheels on my winter bike for just over 12 months on 8 speed Claris & have done about 6000 miles on them according to my Strava (including all through winter).
My LBS say it’s noisy when freewheeling which it is but has been right from when I got them but didn’t really think anything if it.
The hub on the back is on the way out apparently & it’s gonna be approx £100 all in to replace. Seems a bit much to pay when the wheels were only about £170 to start with. It actually sounds worse now than when I took it in. Fine when pedalling but when freewheeling doesn’t sound great at all.
There is some play in the cassette so maybe the freehub is gone rather than the whole hub itself? Even freehubs seem to be about £60-£70.
Should I be expecting whatever is gone to last longer cos I’ve only had them for 12 months & is £100 reasonable?
Thinking I might as well just buy some more wheels but bit loathe to when I’ve only had them 12 months.
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Buy some Shimano RS11s. £100, bombproof, 1800g for the set and will do you 20,000km in all conditions before you have to even think about them. People make wheels sound so much more complicated than necessary, leave wheel making to the machines and ride your bike!
They are that good for just over £100?
Freehub & bearings bombproof as well?
I would really like something that I can just use all through winter & get serviced once a year & not have to worry & just get out there & ride!
In my personal experience they’ve been great. At this level of wheelset the way I see it is can someone build you a better wheel than Shimano – yes but for a lot more money. Can someone build you a cheaper wheel than Shimano – yes but of a much lower quality.
Cheers for that, certainly worth considering if the bill to repalce what I have gets anywhere near £100 then I might as well just get some new wheels.
Just watched a GCN video how to replace the freehub & it looks pretty easy but then again it always does!
If anyone can link me to a compatible brand new freehub at rock bottom prices I’d be grateful!
I had a noisy rear Vento (ooh er) (current type- post 2014 I think? 17mm alloy axle) and the casette was beginning to be a bit sloppy. Ebayed a freehub, really quite easy to remove and replace (I’m assuming here you’ve got a Campag casette lock ring tool). think it was £25. Bearings were completely buggered in the old one, might turn my hand to trying to replace them. The actual wheel bearings on inspection were completely fine. Noise gone, wobble gone, shifting errors gone.By “buggered” we’re talking “a heady mix of grease and metal particles” .
Sounds like exactly what I’ve got to a tea even down to the “sloppy” cassette
Problem is as above I’m just not really that confident about doing it myself. Might go down the route of eBaying the part itself & the pitching up at the LBS & getting him to fit it as that might save a few quid on the part itself.
You couldn’t point me in the direction of what I should be looking at?
Incidentally would I need a Campag lockring tool if it’s a Shimano cassette if I did attempt to do it myself?
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