> That's not the only, or even the worst, problem with freewheels. By design, pedaling tightens a freewheel. On a tandem or on a bike ridden by a very strong rider, they get screwed on so tight it's difficult if not outright impossible to remove them. What's more, the tremendous force needed (we're talking about six foot cheater bars here, no exaggeration) is channeled through a couple of small notches or a handful of splines, which readily strip out.
Freewheel sticking has not been a problem for me. But I make a point to remove the freewheel and lubricate it frequently. BMXers - and bike polo players who put a lot of pressure on all their bike parts more often than not use White Industries hubs. I don't have anything against cassettes per se - and in fact just had a wheel made with a single speed Chris King and the Jeff Jones modified 6 speed cassette - but my city and tour bikes have MaxiCar hubs and my road bike vintage Campy hubs modified by Peter Weigle. I'm supposed to leave those on the shelf because of stories from people in the day who probably failed to follow basic maintenance procedures? Finally - no problem with finding spare sprockets I'll be dead before I wear out all my horde. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
