On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:45 PM, nelson miller <nelsmiller@msn.com> wrote:
> Straying a bit from the topic of the reversed photos of the Sekai, I once
> laced a NOS Maxi-Car hub into a new wheel and could not get a freewheel to
> go on it -- either British or French. With much investigation, it was
> discovered that the freewheel threads were left handed. I welcome anybody's
> explanation for this item other than "It's French" ..... :-)
It would absolutely make sense for a left-hand drive bike -- this hub only had threads on the one side?
What threading was it the reverse of?
The normal British freewheel thread is the same as the bottom-bracket, and with the left-threaded fixed cup there would already be tooling widely available for the reverse threads. Isn't the French freewheel slightly different from the french bottom-bracket? You'd still need Swiss to get the reverse threads anyway...
Maybe it's threaded for a drum brake on the right side for use as a front wheel on some bizzare constructuer tandem?
-- Fred Blasdel
-- Seattle, WA