Follow up to my original Jamis Exile 29er review
It was an all Exile weekend so I had a bit more time to judge the performance of the bike. I think the Hayes Sole brakes are going to be on the way out shortly. Instead of feeling better as they broke in, they started feeling worse. Modulation is just about non existent, the front brake has a choppy pulsation that occurs when they heat up and they just don't cut the cake when it comes hard braking. I'm going to ride them a bit longer and see what happens. The seat post slowly slipped down on me a couple times, I adjusted the quick release as tight as humanly possible and it seemed to hold for the rest of the day. The fork is also very flexy, this is good when it comes to providing a nice ride but if you're not used to it, the back-to-front spring motion of the fork makes it feel like something in the front end is loose when you are riding over rough stuff at high speed. This isn't a problem, just an observation. The high dollar tapered tube rigid fork on my IF feels the same way. The 22 tooth ACS freewheel that I added is also a piece of junk. It makes all sorts of weird noises while pedaling and it's a bit out of round so it makes setting the chain tension harder than it should be. Once I'm sure of my gearing, I'll be getting a White Industries freewheel. More to come as I log additonal miles in the saddle.....
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I put a cheap 22T shimano freewheel on mine and had the same problems. I was considering going with a higher end freewheel. Is this just an issue with larger freewheels in general?
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