I lurk a lot in the Classifieds forum and lots of times when someone lists a pair of Zipps, they mention the extremely low mileage (like <500 miles) and that the hubs have recently been rebuilt.
Why would the hubs need to be rebuilt that soon?
/n00b
They are lying…
My Zipp disc developed excessive side to side play and required a rebuild between 500 and 1000 miles. And yes, it is for sale in the classifieds. I also have some prime swamp land for sale if anyone’s interested.
I’m not really interested in any swamp land, but would you happen to have any bridges for sale?
Victor
My Zipp disc developed excessive side to side play and required a rebuild between 500 and 1000 miles. And yes, it is for sale in the classifieds. I also have some prime swamp land for sale if anyone’s interested.
Your’s isn’t the only Zipp that I’ve seen listed that way. Do Zipp hubs just wear out that quickly?
Our experience with this sort of thing is that the seller generally means that they removed the cassette body and relubed the ratchet mechanism, which takes about 30 seconds. Advertising the thing as rebuilt is a way of trying to ad apparent value to the item you are selling, sort of like selling a car with 50,000 miles and saying that ‘50,000 mile service already performed’ even if that just means that you changed the oil.
We typically rebuild the CSC hubs 2x per year, which makes for about a 10,000 km between service per wheelset, and they pressure wash the things daily after soaking in solvent, and probably spend 1/4 of their time riding in rain, so the service interval for normal riding/racing use is generally every 2 years or 8-10,000 miles. People often do think that hey need to re-lube or replace the bearings as the wheels have a very slight amount of play in the hubs, but that is a designed in feature of the hubs are results in the lowest rolling friction of any hubs you can buy currently, the full description can be found here:
http://www.zipp.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=oIehH1ejeh0%3D&tabid=60&mid=544