Originally Posted by
ls01
actually 8 speed freewheels were what killed off the freewheel. they allowed to much axel to cantilever beyond the bearing cones this led to bent and broken axels. the freehub was the fix for this problem. the desighners moved the cones out near the end of the hub to support the weight better. wheather the axel was solid or hollow didnt really seem to matter much
Actually that makes sense! Maybe that's why the freewheels got a bad rap was because of failure rate with the 8 speed. That's why all my earlier posts discussed problems with the 8 speeders. Again my experience, and those of others, had extremily low rate of problems with the 5, 6 and 7's.