Specialized Turbo Vado SL: An Incredible E-Bike (User Club)

[Twowheelxtc]

If Sofiane Sehili is Gen Z then maybe.

I asked my community:

• The Hunt wheels are known as a British brand
• Some friends ride them, very happy
• We get Hunt wheels from the UK by a reseller in Germany.

Stefan I’ve just looked up that Sofiane Sehili guy. Impressively tough and able but He obviously knows nothing about bikes or how to select a good set of wheels.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Stefan I’ve just looked up that Sofiane Sehili guy. Impressively tough and able but He obviously knows nothing about bikes or how to select a good set of wheels.

He's certainly not a roadie like Stomp

 

[BioWheel]

Have you checked the rear hub carefully for signs of fatigue / failure / cracks?

I once had an MTB hub - Shimano Deore DX if memory serves - where I kept blowing through spokes in the rear wheel near the hub. I'm a lightweight, so it wasn't excess weight, hucking the bike, jumping off curbs or anything like that. I think it was on the third or fourth replacement that I decided to take a really close look at the hub.

Sure enough, there's a hairline crack right at the spoke hole that was stressing every spoke threaded through that hole, new or used, and eventually causing complete failure. I dismantled that wheel, threw away the hub (wasn't gonna help anyone now), and told myself to check all components very carefully when going through unusual wear patterns.

Thanks for the tip Zbike. I will definitely do a closer inspection before putting the wheel back in use.