I have no experience at all with IRD. On my camper bike I use a Shimano Megarange FW. On my more sporting bike I have a Suntour Winner.
Picked up both from the eBay NOS store. No problems with either. On Feb 13, 4:45 pm, Thomas Lynn Skean <thomaslynnsk...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hello, all! > > Does anyone have any experience using the "Shimanopore" freewheel on a > Phil Wood "IRD" 7-speed freewheel hub? Does anyone have any experience > using the "Shimanopore" freewheel with a "normal" (i.e. non-"IRD") 7- > speed freewheel hub? > > I've had to replace three IRD 7-speed freewheels in 7 months. The > first one (13-28) lasted a couple thousand miles but then started to > fail to catch within a reasonable amount of rotation. The next one > (non-mega 13-32) didn't work at all; the small cog was broken. The > next one (non-mega 13-32) lasted only a few hundred miles before > starting to "freeze" (introducing top-of-the-stay slack) and then, > within a week or so, began to fail to catch like the first one. > > It had just gotten cold when the first one failed. It has just been > *really* cold when the third one failed. I don't know if that's > related. > > If these freewheels typically last only a couple thousand mikes, I'll > be disappointed but I'll deal. If there's an alternative freewheel > like the Shimano I'll use those. If fteewheels are just this > inconsistent and I can't find an alternative freewheel arrangement, > I'll switch to a cassette system ASAP and move on. > > Anybody have any insights / info / suggestions? > > Yours, > Thomas Lynn Skean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
