Quill stems allow for far easier (and far more) bar height adjustment,
which is why I prefer them. I also prefer threaded headsets because I
can remove the bar stem from my bike and not have the fork fall out
onto the floor. Threadless headsets were invented by an industry that
was lazy and
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 20:43 -0700, james black wrote:
Why must we dump our freewheels, a technology which in my experience
has always performed flawlessly as intended, just because freehubs
make for better engineering?
One reason might be that freewheels NEVER performed flawlessly. First
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 03:35, Steve Palincsar palin...@his.com wrote:
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 20:43 -0700, james black wrote:
Why must we dump our freewheels, a technology which in my experience
has always performed flawlessly as intended, just because freehubs
make for better engineering?
One
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:34, John Vu j...@jhvu.com wrote:
I love my freewheel stuff but I'm not sure you can really say it's
cheaper to use them.
I don't think I can claim it's cheaper to use freewheels, but it can
be cheap. The last wheelset I built last year was on a NOS pair of
Sunshine
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 13:29 -0700, james black wrote:
I see the freewheel system as analogous to the quill stem -
technological improvements have supplanted it in the mainstream
market, but not rendered it worthless or any less useful than it was
20 years ago.
Except that with stems it's
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 13:52, Steve Palincsar palin...@his.com wrote:
If gearing choices don't matter to you, fine; and if you happen to be a
real genuine fan of 14-28 Alpine, then God bless you - some long
winter's evening maybe you can explain to me how the shifting pattern
works, and who
THis is a pretty funny conversation all out. I think the big
difference (for me) is between using quill stems and freewheel hubs on
brand new bikes. I don't get it at all. Even worse (to me) is
speccing quills and freewheel hubs on a new bike. Outside of this, I
get it, have fun riding. Inside of
I've never ridden a bike that wasn't equipped with anything other than
a freewheel. Given that fact, I'd have to say if I was purchasing a
new Rivendell, or whatever, today it would be fitted with a cassette
hub.
The freewheels that I'm presently using are all either SunTour Winner
Pro or Sachs
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 05:17, Dave Mann pinnah.d...@gmail.com wrote:
So... I'm probably about as retro-grouchy as the next iBOB, but I have to
ask...
Why use a freewheel?
By asking this question you are advancing to a new plateau of grouchy.
Why must we dump our freewheels, a technology which
