Identify a freewheel please!
11-01-24 | 06:49 PM
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Identify a freewheel please!
Anyone have any idea what freewheel this is? It seems to resemble a Taiwanese Falcon, but I don’t remember those having 7 speeds?
It is attached to a Mavic 550 hub.
It is attached to a Mavic 550 hub.
11-01-24 | 08:01 PM
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It is not the best picture. I know, it is not your picture but one that someone posted on eBay to sell it. So you don't have control over that. It used to be that sellers would provide more details. That seems to have faded away. A couple of crappy pictures is all you get now. I thought Falcon had 7 speed freewheels.
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11-01-24 | 09:58 PM
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Hubba Hubba
(Tell is that seven cogs are retained with a Bottom Bracket lock ring,)
Compare with:
(Picture shamelessly snatched from this eBay listing for a Mavic 571 freehub, Not going deeper Because Lazy. Let us know what you do find?)
11-02-24 | 07:05 AM
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Think what we got here is an 8 speed freehub rather than a freewheel.
(Tell is that seven cogs are retained with a Bottom Bracket lock ring,)
Compare with:
(Picture shamelessly snatched from this eBay listing for a Mavic 571 freehub, Not going deeper Because Lazy. Let us know what you do find?)
(Tell is that seven cogs are retained with a Bottom Bracket lock ring,)
Compare with:
(Picture shamelessly snatched from this eBay listing for a Mavic 571 freehub, Not going deeper Because Lazy. Let us know what you do find?)
However, the hubset is definitely the 500/550RD looking ones. Did those 571 labels slide off, or were they part of the hub body?
Here are some more pics.
Definitely doesn't have the 571 logo
Very much looks 550ish
It's partner
Why I bought them
I am truly surprised. I should have looked harder. Falcon DOES have a 7 speed.
But it doesn't really look like the cogset pictured either.
Hope you are right. That would be cool!
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11-02-24 | 02:58 PM
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11-02-24 | 05:25 PM
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I kind of aagree about it being a shipmano 7spd HG. It's a real lousy pic though
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11-02-24 | 05:34 PM
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Definitely a 7-speed freewheel. Those Asian clusters are a bit of a blessing, really. They are of passably decent quality, cheap as dirt, and keep many an older bike rolling happily along.
11-02-24 | 08:01 PM
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It is either a modern day Shimano or a Falcon based on the sloped cogs and lock ring. The Falcon ones are a cheap knockoff of Shimano. Based on the quality of the wheel, I doubt it was made by Falcon. Both useva standard Shimano removal tool, which is the most common freewheel removal tool for anything made from 1990s-modern day.
11-03-24 | 08:14 AM
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One more vote for a freewheel and not a cassette. Sunrace also makes freewheels that look very similar.
Tubular wheelset!
Tubular wheelset!
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11-04-24 | 09:51 AM
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Based on a closer look, the cogs seem to have that Sunrace finish to them. Though the ones I have seen with a lockring tend to be iron colored or have an iron-black first cog.
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11-14-24 | 01:37 PM
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Mystery solved. It is, in fact, a Shimano freewheel. XJ model made in Singapore as John surmised above. Interesting. Since this will be going on a AD Superleicht with Suntour Superbe stuff otherwise, will have to swap it for a Sachs freewheel!
Tires are Graphene Corsa Control and do not look used at all, really.
So,
Ambrosio Durex Super Pro rims
Mavic 550/501 hubs with the correct skewers
Vittoria Corsa Control tubulars already installed
Now disposable XJ Freewheel
For $80 plus $50 shipping. I think that was a decent deal.
Tires are Graphene Corsa Control and do not look used at all, really.
So,
Ambrosio Durex Super Pro rims
Mavic 550/501 hubs with the correct skewers
Vittoria Corsa Control tubulars already installed
Now disposable XJ Freewheel
For $80 plus $50 shipping. I think that was a decent deal.
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1987 Crest C'dale, 1987 Basso Gap, 1992 Rossin EL, 1990 Van Tuyl, 1985 Trek 670, 2003 Pinarello Surprise, 1990ish MBK Atlantique, 1987 Peugeot Isoard, 1987 Nishiki Tri-A, 1981 Faggin, 1996 C'dale M500, 1984 Mercian Pro, 1982 AD SuperLeicht, 1985 Massi ?, 1988 Daccordi Griffe , 1989 Fauxsin MTB, 1981 Ciocc Mockba, 1992 Bianchi Giro, 1977 Colnago Super, 1971 Raleigh Internat'l, 1998 Corratec U+D, 1991 Peugeot Slimestone, 1987 Bianchi Volpe, 1995 Trek 750
