Radial grease spray patern on raar hub disk

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Has anyone seen something like this before? It's a grease spray pattern emnating from the axle/speedo-drive area that's grown to what you see over the last 2-300 miles.



The speedo shows no distress at the needle (real smooth in fact).
The wheel turns freely without any apparent binding.
The hub area on both sides of the axle is cool after 20 miles of highway speed running (no apparent brake rubbing).

Before I tear things down (again), is this something others have already encountered?

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Dave
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Wipe the grease off your hub. Make sure it is not bound up and over heating. Keep riding. Mine does that everytime I grease it. Once the excess is thrown all over and cleaned up, it is fine. In L.A.B.'s first post, the speedo drive is twisting on the axle, getting ready to lock up the rear wheel with the cable when it pulls it out of the head. That's dangerous.

Greg

Re: Radial grease spray patern on rear hub disk

Thanks, Greg. Regreased; flung out more of the old grease on a run, and then regreased again (hopefully now mostly full w/ the newer/lithium bearing grease).

The speedo gear hub assembly (and rear hub disk) are as cool as cucumbers after a 10-mile highway run this evening, ...and the speedo needle remains steady. Barring other signs, I'll chalk it up to just centrifugal fling