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dustedrob:
I've got a fork from them recently and the quality was surprisingly good at a reasonable price so now I'm thinking about getting a wheelset which start at around $279 plus shipping which is a great price. Any thoughts or experiences with their wheelsets?
Thanks!

hebron:
Hi,

Adding my experiences to this thread instead of starting a new one. I bought an Airwolf YFR066 with YFRW005 and their 35mm gravel wheelset both with Novatec 411/412 hubs.
Everything looked good and felt good when i tried them for the first time. But got some bad noises from the rearhub after just 500-800km of riding and stripped the hubs apart and found metal flakes all over the place on the drive side of the hub.
Talked to Airwolf about it and found that a spacer was shredding to pieces. And they told me to remove the spacer and then after that it was no freewheeling in the hub at all.
So talked to Novatec directly for directions on what to do to fix everything, so i sent them pictures of the hub and internals of it.
And Novatec came back and told me I have fake Novatecs, and when I ask Airwolf about it they just tell me they are sorry and the hub are great quality.
But they never answer the question on wheter they are fakes or not, or what hub it really is. And then they stop answering.

The wheels would have been great if the hubs have been good, but for now I regret buying the wheels from Airwolf.
Will update if they sort this thing out, but for now I not getting any answers.

TidyDinosaur:

--- Quote from: hebron on April 22, 2024, 03:22:18 AM ---Hi,

Adding my experiences to this thread instead of starting a new one. I bought an Airwolf YFR066 with YFRW005 and their 35mm gravel wheelset both with Novatec 411/412 hubs.
Everything looked good and felt good when i tried them for the first time. But got some bad noises from the rearhub after just 500-800km of riding and stripped the hubs apart and found metal flakes all over the place on the drive side of the hub.
Talked to Airwolf about it and found that a spacer was shredding to pieces. And they told me to remove the spacer and then after that it was no freewheeling in the hub at all.
So talked to Novatec directly for directions on what to do to fix everything, so i sent them pictures of the hub and internals of it.
And Novatec came back and told me I have fake Novatecs, and when I ask Airwolf about it they just tell me they are sorry and the hub are great quality.
But they never answer the question on wheter they are fakes or not, or what hub it really is. And then they stop answering.

The wheels would have been great if the hubs have been good, but for now I regret buying the wheels from Airwolf.
Will update if they sort this thing out, but for now I not getting any answers.

--- End quote ---

Fake novatec hubs? They are already cheap  :D Do you have pictures?
I use Novatec all the time and apart from standard maintenance like replacing bearings and cleaning/regreasing freehubs they are really great.

hebron:
It was when I contacted Novatec for help and spareparts i got told that mine were fake, so thats the only evidence I have for now.
But Airwolf replied today after a number of days and would talk to Novatec themselfs and got all the pictures sent to them again.
I have also used Novatecs before with no issues what so ever and thats why i choosed them. Im usually ride MTB so just use the road bike for longdistance training sometimes.
Attached some pictures. The second one shows the spacer thats been worned to pieces inside the hub and the third one shows the metal from the inside when i was trying to clean it out.

bremerradkurier:
Reminder that Novatec is the "premium" brand for JoyTech. ;)

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