Originally Posted by
poke em
I was breaking sticks in half with my Schwinn Caliente, just to test it out. Just the inertia of a spinning rear wheel was enough on the workstand. Mine had a fixed 5 speed cluster, no clutch.
Got the fixed rear cluster from Catywompus (thanks!) in the mail yesterday and I played around with it a bit tonight before installing it on the bike. It is very clearly labelled for use ONLY with Shimano FF System, and each ring does feel like it has a bit of clutch action built into it. Maybe the fixed 5 speed with no clutch was a really early version that they had to rethink when they realized the damage it could do! Hopefully they weren't forced to add the clutch after someone was really hurt badly.