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Title: Silent Freewheels
Post by: toooldforthis on February 10, 2006, 01:19 PM

i'm after a couple of silent freewheels, ones that don't make the clicking sound as you ride.

Have I got a chance?

Any ideas please chaperoons?  :)

Title: Re: Silent Freewheels
Post by: Moose on February 10, 2006, 01:19 PM

Shimano are silent

Title: Re: Silent Freewheels
Post by: gmac on February 10, 2006, 01:43 PM

Shhhhhh - imano

Title: Re: Silent Freewheels
Post by: TwoBobRob on February 10, 2006, 06:58 PM

Quote from: toooldforthis on February 10, 2006, 01:19 PM

i'm after a couple of silent freewheels, ones that don't make the clicking sound as you ride.

Have I got a chance?

Any ideas please chaperoons?  :)

Good old fashioned freewheel yeah?  Not a cassette hub, because they have to be noisy to be safe...  As the others said, a Shimano is your best bet - then run some oil into the innards and it will shut right up, exactly how I ran mine   :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Silent Freewheels
Post by: weston on February 10, 2006, 07:02 PM

all i did was use vaseline to grease my bearings & its now silent

Title: Re: Silent Freewheels
Post by: Lazarou on February 10, 2006, 07:18 PM

...i'm always uneasy with silent freewheels I think a nice loud click is reassuring! Coasters are pretty quiet!

Title: Re: Silent Freewheels
Post by: wirewheel on February 10, 2006, 10:15 PM

wouldn't a coaster be silent because there's no pawls in there?

Title: Re: Silent Freewheels
Post by: billstup on February 10, 2006, 11:04 PM

Yeah, coasters and freecoasters are silent, apart from that crunch when you fall off  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Silent Freewheels
Post by: stuntmaster on February 10, 2006, 11:25 PM

Quote from: billstup on February 10, 2006, 11:04 PM

Yeah, coasters and freecoasters are silent, apart from that crunch when you fall off  :daumenhoch:

lol

Title: Re: Silent Freewheels
Post by: jT Racing on February 11, 2006, 09:12 PM

them ones i have got don't make a sound at all.

Title: Re: Silent Freewheels
Post by: Bob_Acid on February 12, 2006, 10:46 AM

The wooden ones?


I like a good clicky freewheel myself, it means people can hear you comming.

Title: Re: Silent Freewheels
Post by: OrgasmDonor on February 13, 2006, 02:08 PM

halford do a DB chrome one for £3.50 BARGAIN and silenter than a shimmy :)