Harvey Sachs wrote:
>..a recent post reminded me
> of all the reasons I don't like Regina (and Atom) freewheels.
>
> 1) Threaded cogs for all positions, instead of splined for most or all.
> Designed to never be changed, and a more expensive production process.
> Early feedback from my earlier post today on a related topic shows I'm
> not the only one who has found the FW cogs to be less interchangeable
> than theory suggests.
>
> 2) An almost infinite set of different thread diameters for different
> positions, depending on how many speeds and the phase of the moon. And
> cog thickness matters. A stockists nightmare.
>
> 3) That wonderful slot in the top of each tooth, designed to elegantly
> cradle the side plates of the chain, so mis-shifting can give you a
> wonderful freewheeling effect. I haven't seen anything quite so perverse
> since the big gap between 2 and 3 on the Sturmey-Archer trigger and hub,
> elegantly designed to give the same forward freewheeling effect. What
> were they thinking, to spend the extra effort on that slot?
>
> 4) And then there is the two-notch remover itself, a design that could
> not be improved by Satan himself as a way to provoke "interesting"
> outbursts from the naive who didn't know that you had to hold the FW in
> place with a QR skewer or a nut on the axle.
Didn't matter, not if you climbed a mountain with a 30T, then the tool would chip the slots regardless And I think you failed to mention the FW pawls falling out their position when you tried to reassemble the body. But that could be solved by replacing the lot with an Atom body
-- mvg
Marten Gerritsen
Kiel Windeweer
Netherlands