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Louis:

--- Quote from: KillSeth on February 11, 2015, 02:46:33 PM ---Seriously, how the fuck are you supposed to replace the ratchet ring? Does anyone know what that piece looks like on a Colony hub?

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Unthread it? I'm not saying it's going to be easy...

Imagine one of these aluminum drivers being shark-toothed over time by a half-link chain.

dude...:
every time you pedal and the hub engages, the ratchet ring is getting threaded tighter and tighter into the shell. those things are not designed to come out. also id be really hard to get a good purchase on it to turn it the opposite way and unscrew it because of the slanted ramped bits for the pawls to ride over.
finally that replacement ratchet ring looks like it is also aluminium, which will get torn to shreds by those steel pawls.

all in all colonys r&d department must be the dumbest of any bmx company, unless im missing something here

JFax:
I can imagine that switching your pawls over and changing the sprocket to LHD (if you were on RHD) and doing some racing or hard brakeless tiretaps would eventually make the ring come off.

I still cannot in any sence, besides Commercial, see how using a alu driver would be a good idea.

meathead:
maybe the colony hub is kinda like the eclat one where the ratchet ring comes out when you switch the driver? I have not got a clue  and couldnt care less really

badlight:

--- Quote from: dude... on February 11, 2015, 11:50:00 PM ---every time you pedal and the hub engages, the ratchet ring is getting threaded tighter and tighter into the shell. those things are not designed to come out. also id be really hard to get a good purchase on it to turn it the opposite way and unscrew it because of the slanted ramped bits for the pawls to ride over.
finally that replacement ratchet ring looks like it is also aluminium, which will get torn to shreds by those steel pawls.

all in all colonys r&d department must be the dumbest of any bmx company, unless im missing something here

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Im pretty sure I saw a tool from Colony for removing the ratchet ring.

That one is for the Clone though.

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