aeh5040 Posted June 7 Posted June 7 12 hours ago, Jurss said: What do You expect from toy, form display set? Will You ride with it 10000 km? For some of us the main excitement of a new piece like this is not building the official set but the potential for other uses. In particular this piece has great potential for mechanical sequencing, among other things. It is something that has been hoped for for a long time. Longevity is very important for models that are displayed at shows. Certain pieces turn out not too be well suited for running 10 hours a day for many consecutive days. (Clutch gears, knob wheels, and pneumatic cylinders are notorious, for instance, depending on the details of the application). Other pieces turn out to be absolutely fine. Quote
Jurss Posted June 8 Posted June 8 10 hours ago, aeh5040 said: Longevity is very important for models that are displayed at shows. None of lego parts has been made with this in mind. You know that. Some lubrication could help, that's all. For display, then prepare lot of them, and make model so, that You can easily as possible to change it, when it is broken. Quote
AVCampos Posted June 9 Posted June 9 New Elementary review: https://www.newelementary.com/2026/06/review-11380-road-bike-from-lego-icons.html Quote
aeh5040 Posted June 9 Posted June 9 (edited) On 6/8/2026 at 4:56 AM, Jurss said: None of lego parts has been made with this in mind. You know that. Some lubrication could help, that's all. For display, then prepare lot of them, and make model so, that You can easily as possible to change it, when it is broken. In my experience good design is more effective than any of those things. Part of good design is understanding the strengths and limitations of parts, which is independent of what their designers had in mind. Edited June 9 by aeh5040 Quote
Jurss Posted June 10 Posted June 10 I think, Lego understands all limitations, and also purpose of the thing, they are designing. If there would be requirement for better durability, then they would use metal. But this is not the case. As a result, we have good plastic part, which does intended function, and it has enough resource for 99% of use cases. Quote
Davidz90 Posted June 10 Posted June 10 On 6/7/2026 at 2:22 AM, aeh5040 said: I can imagine that the centre piece is constantly nipping at the tips of the wedges when freewheeling, and could wear them down quite quickly, which would lead to it not engaging reliably in the other direction The saving grace is that the piece is light and completely unloaded when freewheeling. I would ony expect wear when freewheeling at a high speed. Quote
COPERNICON Posted June 12 Posted June 12 for the interested, the 3 parts of the free-wheel gear have the following text: grey housing: "7161" , "7-01" , "© 2025 The LEGO Group" orange core: "7162" , "05-01" , "© 2025 LEGO" green housing: "7163" , "1-01" , "© 2025 LEGO" yes, it is 2025 not 2026, that was quite the surprise but i guess it makes sense, these parts need time to make i was hoping to find some sort of patent but i found nothing, which is good because that means 3rd parties can create and sell there own similar designs also i am somewhat surprised by general the lack of excitement on the internet about this part and the 64 teeth gear.... like people, we finally have new cool technic parts, not just stupid panels??? Quote
Davidz90 Posted June 12 Posted June 12 1 hour ago, COPERNICON said: like people, we finally have new cool technic parts, not just stupid panels??? Exactly. More of this, please! Quote
R0Sch Posted June 12 Author Posted June 12 https://www.newelementary.com/2026/06/review-11380-road-bike-from-lego-icons.html Quote
howitzer Posted June 14 Posted June 14 20 hours ago, R0Sch said: First alternative model This is awesome! Could also be improved a lot with parts from other sets, but as an alternative it's really great! Quote
COPERNICON Posted June 14 Posted June 14 (edited) here are some more pictures of the internals of the free wheel gear: https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.php?f=589013 apologies for the quality of the images, those are pretty small parts... @Stereo was kind enough to share one of the images for me as i didnt know how to upload images to eurobricks (apparently, you dont) it is not really hard to disassemble one of these gears, you just need to push the green tabs in one by one, dont apply to much force, you just go around and push slightly, eventually they will pop out, then you push with equal force on all 4 green tabs to slide it out, again dont apply to mush force, the green part is very thin and flexible, it will give Edited June 14 by COPERNICON Quote
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