{"id":17952,"date":"2014-07-18T00:18:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T04:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17952"},"modified":"2014-07-18T00:18:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T04:18:38","slug":"dt-swiss-36-point-star-ratchet-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/dt-swiss-36-point-star-ratchet-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"DT Swiss 36 Point Star Ratchet Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7997-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"DT Swiss 36 point star ratchets along with the original 18 point. I purchased these from someone on the MMBA forum at a good price with about 200 miles on them.\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7997-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really liking the <a title=\"Wide Wheels for Salsa El Mariachi Ti\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/11\/wide-wheels-for-salsa-el-mariachi-ti\/\">new 35mm wide wheels that I built for the El Mariachi Ti<\/a>, and I wasn&#8217;t looking to upgrade them until I came across someone on the <a href=\"http:\/\/mmba.org\/forum\">MMBA Forum<\/a> selling a set of wheels which included both the 36 point star ratchets and the original 18 point items. I emailed him asking if he&#8217;d be willing to sell me just the ratchets separately, and he agreed, sending me both the barely-used ratchets (one race) and the special DT Swiss grease for $60, shipped.<\/p>\n<p>For a while I&#8217;ve been interested in\u00a0high-end-high-engagement hubs, but with the normal retail price for these ratchets at around $89 (without the grease) I wasn&#8217;t really willing to pay for it. At this price I was willing to give them a chance.\u00a0Installation was super easy, as DT Swiss freehubs can be disassembled without tools, or really without even removing the cassette. A bit of cleaning to remove the old grease, some of the, pink Hugi grease was applied, and it was all put back together. Spinning the rear wheel makes a much smoother buzzing sound, the higher engagement is obvious on the work stand, and I&#8217;m really looking forward to getting out and trying them on trails.<\/p>\n<p>Now I just hope they don&#8217;t spoil me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really liking the new 35mm wide wheels that I built for the El Mariachi Ti, and I wasn&#8217;t looking to upgrade them until I came across someone on the MMBA Forum selling a set of wheels which included both the 36 point star ratchets and the original 18 point items. I emailed him asking\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17953,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952\/revisions\/17953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}