Originally Posted by cny-bikeman

OK, we (I think) finally have the answer - broken axle. It's true that this does occur more on a freewheel bike (you don't have a cassette) but to have it happen on a new bike has only one cause - rider abuse, as I already noted when I said that a broken axle was a likely cause.

As noted previously I'm done with this poster. As for the Ignore list mentioned below, I thought that just eliminated personal messages. I'll just not try to solve any problems for the poster in the future, and will only check his threads for entertainment purposes.