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Echo SL Freewheel


cai

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Feck me, whining buggers.
I can't believe there's an arguement/disagreement/whatevers going on here over a subject that in a sense you all agree with.

SL's are on the shite side, but so are most other freewheels that are available now anyway.

Using the "my 500 year old tensile/acs/echo/try-all is ace blah blah blah" story is pointless.
No one freewheel is guaranteed to be as good as the next, as is the case with most components in trials.

My current SL is fine (touch wood), and has been for around half a year now.
I would still choose one over any of the current alternatives. If it goes in weeks, the warranty is there. If it goes later, unlucky. Its suprising most freewheels dont shit themselves earlier than they do given the stick they take.

Some people on here make me laugh.

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It is the norm though, wouldn't expect anything less from you.

I'd like to point out that I haven't and you have, so yeah, pot/kettle.

Rusevelt: They have always been steel outers. Even the TI ones are steel (just the inner core is Ti).

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It is the norm though, wouldn't expect anything less from you.

SL's are shite, thread closed.

no there not, best freewheel i have had to tell theeee truth, representing a silva 2k11 echo sl freewilly never skipped a heart beat. sounds like a boss too.

LOVE IT

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Well going on the things I've seen recently, its not an echo sl. I'd go with tensile 60/96 click, but I run a tryall 108.9. It's been fettled though to make it run smooth, ie break the welds off the lockring and taking it off to clean the freewheel out and put decent quality lube in it

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i have the black sl and its 15 month old, had to replace about 3 or 4 pawls upto now though with the old sl's that ive had that blew up haha, made a washer out of one of the old sl bodys (the part where the lockring goes on) stopped the inner body cracking soo far? only had one outer go on me though and ive had 6, 4 inner bodys cracked and 1 outer snapped

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Get a tensile 60 and degrease the grease out oil it and loctite the lock ring. Cheaper and relable.

Mine skipped a little during bedding in, but now 1 year later it hasn't skipped for months.

Having said that I think all the frerwheels on the market would be the same relable freewheel if setup right and bedded in carefully.

There will always be a small amount of faulty freewheels out there thou so don't be supprised if you get a bad one.

Some earlier tensile 96 freewheels had issues with the pawl locating pins snapping

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