On 11/22/2018 3:14 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
If a person is riding their bicycle in -30C (without the windchill factored in to even lower temperature) and they have some intermittent cases where the freehub freely turns once pedaling starts again after coasting; would they be advised t o remove the grease or oil inside the freehub body entirely so that that lubrication does not freeze and cause the unwanted freewheeling?

Cheers

What I've always heard is that you clean out any grease and just use oil.

If the bicycle will be stored in sub-freezing conditions, you could
clean out all the grease and oil and then just use plain teflon powder.
Being a solid powder, it cannot freeze. It does not offer any corrosion
protection from *liquid* water however, thus the always-sub-freezing
condition... (the teflon will tend to drive out any liquid lubricants,
so mixing the two doesn't really "work" like you'd think)

Get it from a piano tool source. They sell big tubs pretty cheap.
Everywhere else acts like it's gold and they charge a lot for a tiny vial.

? Some places note a minimum temperature of -100F for teflon, while
others say -328F ? Either way, let me know how it goes. I'll probably
stay home that day.