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Freewheel breakage
Today I encountered a bicyclist whose freewheel had simply let go.
It didn't drive at all, but neither did it make any obviously awful noises. He'd already arranged for someone to pick him up, so thre wasn't any point in exploring further, but I was very much surprised. The freewheel on my bike is coming up on 40 years old, runs quietly and seems to work fine....should I be worried about it? Never done anything to it except oil it once in a blue moon. Thanks for reading, bob prohaska |
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Freewheel breakage
On 5/22/2020 6:38 PM, bob prohaska wrote:
Today I encountered a bicyclist whose freewheel had simply let go. It didn't drive at all, but neither did it make any obviously awful noises. He'd already arranged for someone to pick him up, so thre wasn't any point in exploring further, but I was very much surprised. The freewheel on my bike is coming up on 40 years old, runs quietly and seems to work fine....should I be worried about it? Never done anything to it except oil it once in a blue moon. Thanks for reading, bob prohaska We changed two today with that symptom. Your 40 year product probably wasn't a noname brand from china. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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Freewheel breakage
On Fri, 22 May 2020 23:38:33 +0000, bob prohaska wrote:
Today I encountered a bicyclist whose freewheel had simply let go. It didn't drive at all, but neither did it make any obviously awful noises. He'd already arranged for someone to pick him up, so thre wasn't any point in exploring further, but I was very much surprised. My guess is the gunge in the hug had caused the pauls to stick. When I started using grease in the works, I had to use a medium grease so the pauls didn't stick up. Thankfully, we don't have freezing weather in winter, so I didn't have to adopt seasonal grease changes The freewheel on my bike is coming up on 40 years old, runs quietly and seems to work fine....should I be worried about it? Never done anything to it except oil it once in a blue moon. As always, it is a YMMV, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it. After that time, I'd just watch for it becoming loose and consider a ball bearing replacement, and doing that will tell you why I started using grease in the first place. |
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Freewheel breakage
On 23/05/2020 00.38, bob prohaska wrote:
Today I encountered a bicyclist whose freewheel had simply let go. It didn't drive at all, but neither did it make any obviously awful noises. He'd already arranged for someone to pick him up, so thre wasn't any point in exploring further, but I was very much surprised. The freewheel on my bike is coming up on 40 years old, runs quietly and seems to work fine....should I be worried about it? Never done anything to it except oil it once in a blue moon. Thanks for reading, bob prohaska I've had a nasty cheap one give up the ghost, but now I can afford mid-range stuff I haven't had any issues for decades. |
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Freewheel breakage
On 5/22/2020 7:38 PM, bob prohaska wrote:
Today I encountered a bicyclist whose freewheel had simply let go. It didn't drive at all, but neither did it make any obviously awful noises. He'd already arranged for someone to pick him up, so thre wasn't any point in exploring further, but I was very much surprised. The freewheel on my bike is coming up on 40 years old, runs quietly and seems to work fine....should I be worried about it? Never done anything to it except oil it once in a blue moon. I'm pretty sure "once in a blue moon" is the recommended oiling interval. I've had zero problems with freewheels, aside from not being able to get one off the wheel. (Seriously - I actually bent my bench vise before I gave up.) At the start of one multi-day camping trip, my friend's freewheel body broke and spilled tiny ball bearings all over the road. It was Labor Day, so everything was closed. We gathered as many bearings as we could find and used the garage of a kind resident to patch things up as well as we could. I used a length of electrical wire the same diameter as the bearings to support the inner bearing race, and was _just_ able to catch enough threads to sort of screw the thing together. That gave him a fixed gear bike with five rear cogs. He carefully pedaled it over 50 miles further that day, and we luckily found a bike shop the next morning. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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