Re: [CR]re: regina freewheels

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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:09:40 -0700
From: "mike scammon" <mike@scammoncycles.com>
To: "Charles Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]re: regina freewheels
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Was it really flawed? Or did something just come out that was better?

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Charles Andrews <chasds@mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> &&&&&&&&&
>
> 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
>
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Mike Scammon
Menlo Park, Ca.