I'd be slow to damn all freewheels because of this. The ird ones have a bad rep. And it's too bad it is still happening ihqve one and still seeing these reports are making me nervous.
On Apr 16, 11:06 am, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 07:29 -0700, Mike wrote: > > I picked up the rando frame yesterday and it's beautiful... > > unfortunately I decided to use the new VO high flange hubs for the > > wheels. The hubs are actually fine, what's not fine is the damned IRD > > 6spd FW. Already the thing is giving me grief! It's not immediately > > engaging always. At one point it was even freewheeling in both > > directions. No good. And this doesn't instill confidence for me. > > I agree. Certainly not something you would want on a dedicated > randonneuring frame! IMHO the case for freewheels is getting > increasingly harder to make. The best ones are all long gone. Some > excellent discussion of freewheels in a recent Velo Orange Blog > entry:http://velo-orange.blogspot.com/2011/04/freewheel-testing.html > > Tom's comment in that discussion is especially appropriate in this > context: > > "Shimano hasn't made freewheels in Japan in almost 25 years. The current > tourney 5 speed freewheels are made in china. The tourney 7sp are made > in Singapore. Been that way since the 80s. > > "The average lifespan of a cheapo bike with a freewheel is around 122 > miles of usage. Shimano produces their freewheels and other low end > components to last 10 times that distance. The low end tourney > freewheels are not dura ace level by any stretch and should not be > compared to such." > > After all, what is 1,220 miles in the life of a randonneuring frame? > That's less than a month's service, most likely. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
