[CR]re: regina freewheels

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From: "Charles Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:36:58 -0700
Subject: [CR]re: regina freewheels

Jerry wrote:

Or you can remove the cogs from the outer body to use on another FW. This is not fun, but it illustrates why most newer FW's are splined instead of notched.

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I have always wondered why--in the name of all that's reasonable--Regina went to market with such a disasterously incompetent freewheel design. I know, I know, they were standard for many years...and I wonder how many got stripped, and the wheel thrown away? A LOT I bet.

I have been told that the original Campagnolo removal tool, properly used, tended to preserve the notches better than any other tool, but I've not tried one, so I couldn't say from experience.

You also have to wonder why it took Regina SO long to change the design. What? 30 years? 40 years? How many thousands of perfectly good freewheels were buried in landfill because some designer didn't take the trouble to understand what he was doing?

I really wonder who was minding the store at Regina...that freewheel body design was SO bad...think of how many people had to pass on that design before it was manufactured and put to market? How many people didn't bother to realize how flawed it was?

Really makes a person wonder.

Charles (ruined a few myself) Andrews
Los Angeles