Echo Sl Freewheel Fail After 2-3 Months

[Rusevelt]

I guess after braking the tooth from a weird wall stack during first ride, this must have weakened that area for this to happen approx 2 months after. Deng needs to get on the case with replacements parts.

[Mark W]

When Stan asked you if you'd hit the freewheel, you said you hadn't on the phone?

If you've hit into a wall that hard it's obviously going to break there - you've blatantly weakened the freewheel by doing that, so it's pretty likely to fail there afterwards. Further from the phone call we had when that happened originally - no freewheel is designed to be able to withstand an impact directly to the teeth at an angle. It's impossible to design it to withstand that as you're limited massively by the constraints of having a chain running over it.

[Rusevelt]

When i snapped the tooth from the first wall impact the rest of the shell was fine, no stress fracture on the shell itself, just the tooth had snapped clean so i just continue to use the freewheel because its performance wasn't affected. Obviously the result of the first impact clearly weakened that area to the degree for this to happen earlier this morning.

The freewheel still works fine, i just need a replacement outer shell which i would be perfectly happy to pay for. I'm out to start any sh*t like i usual do, but anyone running one of these on a half bashring will be concerned because their freewheel is more exposed.

Edited September 15, 2010 by Rusevelt

[Mark W]

Deng needs to get on the case with replacements parts.

I have a feeling that's not going to be happening any time soon, unfortunately. We asked when you originally contacted us about this, and they seemed pretty set on not bringing out spare items for them for the most part.

...but anyone running one of these on a half bashring will be concerned because their freewheel is more exposed.

Which is totally, exactly, 100% the same as any other freewheel out there. The only difference with an Eno is that they have a drive shell available seperately. For every other freewheel around they don't, and it's pretty obvious that if you run a halfring you're going to increase the risk of this kind of thing happening. Having said that, this is the first time I've heard of anyone snapping a tooth off from hitting a freewheel into a wall, and as such I'm pretty sure most people feel it's worth running the very low risk of that happening to them to save a bit of weight.

EDIT: Before you start suggesting the SL driveshell is 'weak' in any way, we've sold a lot of TR and SL freewheels, and we've only ever had one freewheel back with a shell that had snapped through normal usage. That's considerably less than any other freewheel we sell, which can also be verified by searching for broken Tensile freewheels, Try-All freewheels, or any other company's freewheels on here. They outlast every other freewheel out there whilst also working better than any other freewheel out there.

[Matt Vandart]

WTF?

Echo SL freewheel cracks! thats it, they are shit...............................................

How the f**k did you manage that?

Awesome.

You run it for 2 months without a tooth!!! Your braver than I.

Takes the term basher to another level

[ellis-collins]

Ah looks pretty bad ! I hope you can sort it out ! I ordered a trialtech sport 108 today, I hope it lasts !