Fred,
Taking off the freewheel ask for special tool that I don't have actually and I am not after replacing it now. The bike was owned at the time by an italian competitor and I remember it was everything campagnolo altough I can't remember having checked the freewheel at that time ..this goes back to 1967 or 68 when I've acquired the bike.My freewheel differs from the one that is illustrated at Harris as it has a "lubricant reservoir" under the form of a kind of tampon squeezed between the splined ring and the gear itself .I can't measure precisely the threading size (diam.) but I would say closer to 1 and a half than 1.300 but hard to say. BTW I am located about 10 miles east of gaspé itself..around 30 miles from percé. regards,
Ronald Manseau,Gaspé,Qc.
> Ronald,
> I'm guessing that by "wheel locking wing" you mean "quick
> release lever" (blocage rapide?) and that by "gear set" you
> mean "freewheel" (roue libre, for sure).
> My suspicion is that your Maillard freewheel is the original
> type of equipment used on the bicycle. I did a lot of
> cycle-touring in Québec during the 1960s and I remember that
> many of the high quality bikes we encountered in the province
> used French threaded components. I remember this well, because
> you could go into a shop to get a replacement part for a
> Raleigh, Schwinn or Atala and the proprietor (inspired perhaps
> by the recent visits from Charles de Gaulle) would proudly
> explain that we should have been using freewheels, bottom
> brackets, handlebar stems (or whatever we were repairing) that
> were made to French standards.
> So you will need to determine for sure whether or not it
> uses French threading. To do so, you might have to remove it
> and look for the identification mark on the hub. If it says
> something like "34.7mm x 1mm" then it is French threading.
> Harris Cycles actually sells replacements:
> http://www.sheldonbrown.com/
> Where is Gaspé? I would think that some of the older shops in
> Montréal, Québec City or even Trois-Rivières should have the
> pieces you need.
> Amitiés,
> Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia
>
> > I am trying to bring back my circa 1965 serena bike to what
> > it was originally. The rear wheel hub is campagnolo and I can
> > read record on it as well as campagnolo.The "wheel locking
> > wing" has campagnolo plus "vincenza"But where it seems odd
> > the "gear set" is Maillard made in france". Its of course a
> > five gears affair ranging 14 to 24.There are no visible other
> > marks of numbers written on this gear set...anybody could
> > tell me if this gear set could have been installed on the
> > bike right to begin with back in 1965? Any idea about the
> > date of that gear set?
> >
> > thank you,
> >
> > Ronald Manseau,Gaspé,Qc.
> >
>
>
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