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From: rosen@lamont.UUCP (stephan rosen)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Freewheels?
Message-ID: <146@lamont.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 12:23:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  2 12:23:42 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Dec-85 04:42:08 EST
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> > From barrys@hercules.UUCP (Barry Steel) Sat Feb  5 22:28:16 206
> > 
> > I am out shopping around for a freewheel...
> > I am particulary interested in:
> > 	1) quiet!
> > 	2) longevity (ie. reliable)
> > 	3) it must be fairly common (so I can get parts on the road).
> > 	4) approximately 13-28 teeth.
> > 	5) 6 speed (a must)
> 
> If you are interested in reliability, don't bother with the Suntour
> Pro Compe (Suntour's gold freewheel).  The cover plate tends to loosen up
> under high loads and before you know it, your freewheel bearings are
> all going back down the hill you just came up!
> 
> I've used Suntour Winner freewheels for a long time, and I've never had
> any problems with them.  They have a lockring arrangement over the cover
> plate to prevent the aforementioned problem.  In face, one of the purported
> advantages of this system is that the freewheel bearing tightness is actually
> adjustable, although I've never tried it.  I've never had any mechanical
> problems with the Winner bodies.  (Cogs, of course, eventually wear out.)
> You can get them in almost any conceiveable gear combinations.  They're
> expensive, but worth it.
> 
> 
> 			Dave Wagner
> 			University of Washington Comp Sci Department
> 			wagner@washington.arpa
> 			{ihnp4,decvax,ucbvax}!uw-beaver!wagner
> 
> "The surest thing there is is we are riders,
>  And though none too successful at it, guiders,
>  Through everything presented, land and tide
>  And now the very air, of what we ride."
> 	- Frost

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