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Silent freewheels
My Dawes Galaxy came with a silent freewheel which i regard as a great
luxury. Most bikes don't have them. Why?? Rob N |
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I like the lovely mechanical clicking noise that indicates a rest
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Robert Norton wrote: My Dawes Galaxy came with a silent freewheel which i regard as a great luxury. Most bikes don't have them. Why?? We ride our bikes. Any bike has a silent freewheel [1] if it isn't ridden. Most bikes live in the back of the garden shed or garage. If they wern't silent, can you imagine the noise of millions of freewheels wailing from the back of the garage 'ride me.. please... ride me..'. ...d [1] inside every fixie is a freewheel which has seized the day.. |
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in message , Robert Norton
') wrote: My Dawes Galaxy came with a silent freewheel which i regard as a great luxury. Most bikes don't have them. Why?? Fundamentally because Campag famously clack like a football rattle, and everyone else imitates Campag. I quite like my Campag clack (mind you, it isn't allowed to clack that often). The SRAM on my Cannondale is relatively quiet. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ;; single speed mountain bikes: for people who cycle on flat mountains. |
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"Robert Norton" wrote in message
... My Dawes Galaxy came with a silent freewheel which i regard as a great luxury. Most bikes don't have them. Why?? Interestingly a lot of the posher hubs have very noisy freewheels (Hope, DT/Hugi, Chris King, apparently Phil Wood), and Campag are noiser than shimano. The posh hubs I mentioned also have much stronger freewheel mechanisms - this could be related. Of course the secret is to not freewheel! cheers, clive |
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"Clive George" wrote in message ... Interestingly a lot of the posher hubs have very noisy freewheels (Hope, DT/Hugi, Chris King, apparently Phil Wood), and Campag are noiser than shimano. My mtb Hope is noisy but rarely heard. If I'm not peddaling it's because I'm going downhill and other noises drown out the hub, these may include wind noise, ratting from the bike, rattling from my body, screams from my mouth or some ******* laughing at the look of panic on my face. -- Pete |
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Robert Norton wrote:
My Dawes Galaxy came with a silent freewheel which i regard as a great luxury. Most bikes don't have them. Why?? Rob N Its about the only sound we do make and we have enough trouble getting pedestrians to notice we are there as it is ;-) -- Tony "Don't argue the matter, the difficulties will argue for themselves" -W.S. Churchill |
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Simon Brooke wrote:
in message , Robert Norton ') wrote: My Dawes Galaxy came with a silent freewheel which i regard as a great luxury. Most bikes don't have them. Why?? Fundamentally because Campag famously clack like a football rattle, and everyone else imitates Campag. I quite like my Campag clack (mind you, it isn't allowed to clack that often). The SRAM on my Cannondale is relatively quiet. That's nothing compared to the Chris King bag of bees sound. -- Tony "Don't argue the matter, the difficulties will argue for themselves" -W.S. Churchill |
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On 06/09/2005 22:35:33 "Robert Norton" wrote: My Dawes Galaxy came with a silent freewheel which i regard as a great luxury. Most bikes don't have them. Why?? Rob N Because centrifugal clutches,(yes I know centrifugal force does not exist, I'm a physicist), are expensive and heavy. -- Buck I would rather be out on my Catrike http://www.catrike.co.uk |
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"Buck" wrote in message ... On 06/09/2005 22:35:33 "Robert Norton" wrote: My Dawes Galaxy came with a silent freewheel which i regard as a great luxury. Most bikes don't have them. Why?? Rob N Because centrifugal clutches,(yes I know centrifugal force does not exist, I'm a physicist), are expensive and heavy. Only I think a "silent" freewheel is a form of Spragg clutch, relying on friction not centrifugal force. Pete |
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