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| Freehub Wheel (what my cassette fits on) |
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| Freewheel Hub (what I ordered anew, arrhh!) |
More detailed schematics of these two types are available at Wikipedia. Unfortunately, my former lack of knowledge left me with the wrong wheel. Further investigation also taught me that I am likely to need spacers to properly fit my old 7-speed cassette to a new hub because the latter are generally designed for cassettes with 8-10 gears. Those of us who are satisfied with merely 7 gears will need to cope/adapt. Anyway, this additional wrinkle made it likely (to me, at least) that additional online shopping for spacers could lead to more error in parts selection. Therefore, this morning I opted for the bike shop, where my Trek sits being repaired in a well-stocked shop.
4 comments:
Oh no! Sorry to hear that! I came close to making the opposite mistake (ordering a wheel set for a freehub cassette instead of with a freewheel for my existing sprocket cluster). Good thing I had double checked on Sheldon Brown (http://sheldonbrown.com/free-k7.html) before I ordered! At least your bike shop can sort it out for you.
I ran into this also when I had someone replace the wheel on my Miyata. I didn't have a clue until one day the freewheel came loose-what the heck? That was my first thought because I thought those cassettes screwed on, but I now had a freehub.
Post is here:
http://anniebikes.blogspot.com/2011/04/strange-occurence-and-new-freewheel.html
Amy, I will definitely keep Sheldon in mind for next time!
Annie, thanks for sharing your tale!
I thought our bikes were simple?!!?!
Didn't know you could still get a Freewheel hub wheel anymore.
Hopefully, the LBS (assuming you got it from one) will take it back in exchange for the right part.
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