Subject: [CR]French Freewheel Body
Brad asks:
> I was going thru a bunch of my old bike parts and found a real odd ball.
A
> five speed Metric (French Threaded) Suntour freewheel body. No cogs, just
> the body. I believe I used it on a Gitane tandem I owned in the early
> 70's. I have no idea why it has no cogs, except I put a Phil Wood 48
spoke
> rear hub on the bike because we broke so many spokes. I may have used the
> cogs on a new English FW body.
When I was a distributor for SunTour (in a previous life), I sold both
metric and tandem freewheel bodies without the cogs.
> ANYWAY, my question, is this thing as rare a hen's teeth and desired by
the
> Francophiles of the world or is it a piece of antiquated junk that nobody
> wants?
Probably by some Francophiles, but probably not all that many, as the metric threaded are not all that rare.
Hugh Enox
La Honda, California
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