Trade: Freewheel for fixed wheel

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  • Hi, I just got a bike from the bay with a freewheel for a friend. but he wants a fixed not free, so basically looking to swap it for similar 700c rear wheel but with fixed hub. Nothing fancy! Based north ldn..

    Spec:
    36H Mavic rim - 700c
    Suzue 130mm Quick Release Hub
    18 tooth Freewheel





  • Is that a freewheel with no method of removal? Usually they have notches to fit a tool to (2, 4 or even 6 notches)

  • notches might be on the side nearest the hub? screwed on back to front/inside out? to remove you take the freewheel to bits stick whats left in a vice and turn the wheel... i think. could be wrong.

  • its got notches on the cog, one just before the D in 'Dicta' and one after the D in 'Brand'. So the freewheel cog can be removed if you have the tools but the cogs on a hub that use to take a geared cassette so it will always be a freewheel…

  • notches might be on the side nearest the hub? screwed on back to front/inside out? to remove you take the freewheel to bits stick whats left in a vice and turn the wheel... i think. could be wrong.

    I thought that too but this image:
    shows no sign of them.

  • its got notches on the cog, one just before the D in 'Dicta' and one after the D in 'Brand'. So the freewheel cog can be removed if you have the tools but the cogs on a hub that use to take a geared cassette so it will always be a freewheel…

    Yeah I can see those but they're for opening the freewheel and changing the bearings not for removing it. You'll still be left with the shell on the hub and the only way to remove that is to take the freewheel apart completely. It may be possible to remove it without damaging it and put the freewheel back together but I doubt it'd be worth it.

    Seems daft they don't put notches on all of them. can't be a huge £ saving.


  • Love the old Mavic decals.

  • Dicta freewheel £6.99, don't seem to be made for removeal in one piece

  • The one in your picture looks similar to the LMA-2:

    http://www.dicta.com.tw/samp_all.htm

    To remove if no two or four pin notches for a removal tool:

    "remove the cover, clockwise!
    let the bearings fall out all over the floor.
    clamp the remaining guts in a vice and undo, or rather find the vice wont grip it nicely and begin to grind two opposite flats on, till a vice will grip and undo it.
    finally learn from the mistake and only ever fit a freewheel......."

    http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/cheap-dicta-freewheel-removal

    [ame="http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=483812"]Freewheel removal problem - Mountain Bike Forums[/ame]

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