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Thank You, I think I got it together without the interpretative dance and all :D
Basically they're gonna be calling me like "You had ABEC5 for 3,5k, but we can gladly do ABEC1 for only a couple grand, which ones you want?"

So it sounds like the best (or cheapest, as I don't have a lot of spare cash right now) option I have is to get the bike back, take the hub apart, remove the seals from the bearings and put them in gasoline and wash em till all the sand is gone and then hopefully be able to assemble it back together?

lol I don't understand any of this, so basically bearings and grease can be replaced on a miche primato pistard rear hub? I took it to the shop and they also said something about closed bearing hub, guess they didn't have the time to look at it yet, but it would be nice to gain some understanding :D

so it means once the grease runs out, the entire hub is fucked?

I got my grease at the drug store and when I opened it later I found out that the tube had already been opened and used a little .. super creepy

that means they cannot be regresed or otherwise serviced if they get "crunchy"?

I google, yet wtf is "Dutch caps from dwarves"
but thanks for sharing anyway

I took it apart as much as I could and it seems to have one plastic seal
will take it to shop and see if really it's the grease, I think some dirty water got in it

Dunno, @dancing james advised buying sealed bearings among other things. What do You mean by "lbs", the manufacturer? That's what I wanted - aftermarket rubber sealings - do You know who makes such things, I only find something for motorcycles

that's what I've been trying to determine here, because I didn't ride in the sea and yet my primato sounds crunchy

They said lots of things :D

sort of interested, if You provide some close-up pics

ok, fuck it, 120£

Thanks for the detailed advice, I think I'll just take them to the shop -- the bearings should be fine, since the bike rolled perfectly and I thought it must be the chain making the noises, then I took it off and it turned out that the hub is making the grinding sounds, hopefully re-greasing them will do the trick and doing it in the shop will be most likely be cheaper than to buy a tube full of decent bearing grease :) and I only have two adjustable wrenches -- maybe somebody who knows what they're doing could open the hub with just that, but not me

dunno, one of those "sealed hubs" (I'm talking about miche pistard) sounds grainy ( https://monosnap.com/file/x9a9NXuZpvPDY9xzK6WmzPGDd1hGXi )already, without any submerging or anything of that sort and it's a holiday and I don't have any bearing grease lol
forgot what was my point :)
anyways, I guess I'll try to regrease (if I find it) without changing the bearings or just take it to the shop
Happy New Year!

but they don't have rubbers around them :) I explained that I'm clueless on the topic. they look exactly like roller skate bearings from the outside and these things suck in sand like a mother$%er
sorry for wasting everybody's time

I got the vaseline and understand the difference between track and MTB conditions perfectly, I chose to get a track bike because it's light (and btw totally out of style where I live, HHSRB are the thing right now here :) and usually I only ride when it's sunny at Sunday
what I wanted to know if it's possible to put a piece of rubber around the hub axle, thanks @M_V
@edmundro that last bit is probably the advice I needed, thanks for that.
@adroit I got the hubs half a year ago, I planned to ride it in good conditions only.
@dancing james didn't expect to find anyone practicing proctology here
@Skülly I specially bought these bonz expert and miche pistard used, cos I wanted good hubs I couldn't afford, please understand my obsession :)
@Scilly.Suffolk thanks for the time and effort. I'll stick with putting vaseline around them.
Ok, I lost track of all the replys and gotta run now, seeya

what the ^%&, I explained as good as I could that I'm not exactly familiar with these things. would you be so kind and repeat the good advice I just won't listen to? putting vaseline around it? bought the damn thing today, I still think proper rubber sealing would do better in the given conditions. so your advice is completely useless, kudos @Skülly

I would still prefer to put some rubber around them, like MTB
@Constable_Savage do You mean opening them up or just noise check?
@edmundro if there are no clicks and stuff, regularly putting some vaseline around would do the trick?

Total bike noob over here.
I'm worried about driving my tarck bike in the wet - I noticed that my MTB has huge rubber sealings around hubs, but my track bike does not - is it possible to buy and install such sealing for track hubs, so the salty water doesn't get in?

how much for the spoke?

Definitely msg me when You don't need it anymore or smth

Dibs on The Track Champ, if You could be so nice and do a little bit of edit:sanding on the upper seat tube

how much for the aerospoke?

thx

what's that rear hub on the makino?