My one friend used to race in the carribean before he moved to NY and now to Pa. He had Zeus components and used to describe them very similarly to Charles' response in that...they would get a couple cogs or freewheels for sponsorship and only use for racing and limited at that...he would describe how once they would start skipping, they would flip the chain around and get another 100 or so miles from them. Basically they relied on other freewheel brands though for training and racing later in the year.
Walt Falls Creek, Pa
-----Original Message----- From: "C. Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com> Sent: Sep 10, 2003 2:52 PM To: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]was: triplex now: Zeus alloy freewheel
The Zeus alloy freewheel was a thing of beauty, but only good for a single day's racing, in my view. I probably got a couple hundred miles out of mine, tops, before it started shedding alloy dust all over my chain, and soon after started skipping.
If you stayed on the smallest cog, which was a high-grade steel, as I recall, and used the other alloy cogs sparingly, you might get 1000 miles or something out of it. Great for criteriums maybe, if you were a strong rider, but otherwise? For pros only.
Charles Andrews SoCal
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Walter Skrzypek
Falls Creek, Pa