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Thanks for the reply, really you've just confirmed my suspicions. It would have to happen in the middle of Didsbury, in front of a reasonable sized group of good lookin' girls and on the best day we've had in months :-(

I'd been thinking that in a couple of months I'd get the hub re-built onto a nicer rim up at Wills Wheels (next best thing to Rick Green round this way!) but now I'm wondering about doing the full monty and getting a nice hub too. The formula ones on the Plug have been running fine for me but it they strip this easily I'm never going to have much faith. Maybe I need to invest in a lock ring tool and keep an eye on the tension?? I don't hear other people bothering though..

I'll have to see what the mechnic says. I'm just hoping they say it's fubar now as it removes the debate and they can just throw me a wheel from a display plug whilst they do the waranty thing with Charge. What I don't want is the we'll have to order a hub and rebuild using the same rim scenario as that means no bike for a couple of days. If they have to order a new wheel then at least I can ride in frewheel to get about on.

The nightmare is that I go back tomorrow and they have just brushed the threads off and put the old bits back on... that would be tantrum time!!

Sorry to necro post but I could do with some advice on a similar issue and I could do with it before my 24hr nursery period is up!

Finally joined the fixed club about 4 weeks ago with a nice new Charge Plug from Evans Manchester. Once I got the SPD's on I moved over to fixed and have been loving it. I've been giving it a bit of hammer and yes, being a big kid and pulling some fairly hefty skids. Today I went out for a ride and had to stop quickly from a reasonable pace, no drama but I did have to give it a good kickback. When I set off my back wheel slipped, I thought nothing of it as there is that much crap on the road I gueesed it was just chip wrappers or something. About 4 miles later coming to a set of lights I started leg braking (not a skid!!) and... well I just did not stop! Fortunately I've kept my brakes on and managed to grab a handfull before shooting into oncoming traffic.

The lock ring and cog were fully off, fortunately the cog was just spinning round the hub body and the chain didn't fowl up. Looking at the hub body what was my thread (for the lock ring) was now looking like a stretched slinky spring, bits dangling off it like it had just been machined on a lathe. The thread on the cog looks fine and the cog thread on the hub body looks OK. I've taken the bike back to Evans (boy did it feel strange in freewheel mode!!) and the head mechanic is due to take a look at it tomorrow morning when he gets in. There is a little bit of thread left, but I just would not trust it now with a lock ring. My fear is that they will try fobbing me off with a new lockring. This is a ~1 month old bike and the hub and cog are stock, I've not done anything with them other than give them a wipe down when I clean the chain.

Would you trust this hub? I'm sorry I've got no photos so show but having pulled off the loose metal I'd say the remaining thread is ~1/3 the depth of what was there originally. Have I done anything wrong? I know when you fit them you need to tighten them but as this was new and all stock I'd not done anything. Would you be concerned that there was no sign of any greese or thread compound on the hub? I'd have assumed that they would be built using something but it just looks like raw alloy on steel.

I've got to speak to the shop tomorrow once they have had a look, my preference would be a new hub but I would be interested in hearing what you guys think. I'm I just beeing an over sensitive noob who should get out the araldite and HTFU?

Suddenly Level starts to make sense to me...

Anything interesting ever get grown in this nursery? I could do with something to calm me down after this afternoons hub trashing ride :-(