so i flipped my wheel today...
 

i had to get my car worked on today, so i put my bike in my trunk and decided to ride it home rather than wait around or get a ride. i flipped the wheel cause my journey home was all downhill (with the exception of about two miles of intense uphill). so i flipped my wheel so i could just coast down the hills.

it was the first time in about year i'd ridden freewheel, and it'll probably be about a year until i ride it again. i felt like i had no control at all. worst of all, the freewheel was slipping a little bit, and it terrified me when i was taking off from stoplights when my freewheel would slip back.

all in all, i think next time i'd rather bomb the hills and be exhausted when i get home instead of riding freewheel.

you're crazy dog. how does a freewheel "slip back"

i suppose it slipped the same way a cog will tighten when you first apply pressure to it after installing it. this was the first time i rode the freewheel on my new wheelset, so i guess it was just tightening down a little more.

Are you coming to Summerslam saturday?

nah dawg.

and i don't even know you dude.

I don't even know you're a dude.

you sure sound silly though.

how does a freewheel slip back? you mean you rotafixed it by mashing a few times? or the wheel slipped in the dropouts cause you didn't tighten it up? installation problems.


666pack is a lot of beer.

i know what you mean about not feeling in control. i jumped on my old geared mountain bike the other day to try to ride around my land (jumping logs and stuff...i don't know the cool MTB term for it) and fell off in about 50 yards. i lose my balance and such when my pedals move freely backwards.

lol You people are funny. You need to ride more.