Technical FAQ: Mavic freehubs

By Lennard Zinn
Published May. 15, 2007
Updated Nov. 17, 2009 at 4:55 PM EDT

Dear Lennard,
I am writing today to clarify the FTS-Lvs. FTS-X solution. Changing the pawls, springs and seal over to the new FTS-X system is the correct answer, if and only if it’s a mountain-bikewheel. FTS-X (pawls and springs) does not go in road wheels.The respective seals are specific to road and MTB wheels.
Michael Berlinger
Product Expert
Mavic, Inc.-Marketing

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Lennard Zinn

Lennard Zinn, our longtime technical writer, joined VeloNews in 1987. He is also a frame builder, former U.S. national team rider, and author of many bicycle books including Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance and Zinn’s Cycling Primer: Maintenance Tips and Skill Building for Cyclists. He holds a bachelor’s in physics from Colorado College. Readers can send brief technical questions to Ask LZ.