Peter,
This is just a guess - but I wonder if this is from the 1960s
or '70s and was intended for use with a child's racing bike? I
saw a number of those bikes in Italy at that time. You've
probably seen a number of them, too, in England. The ones I
saw looked like miniature adult racing bikes but lacked a front
derailleur and had fewer gears in the rear.
I never took notice of the spacing on the freewheel
sprockets but perhaps these were left wider than normal because
a child would not be expected to be as dextrous with the
shifters as an adult?
Cheers,
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
> A fellow V-CC member has shown me a Regina Corsa 3 speed
> 3/32nd
> freewheel hub that I have not seen before. There is a photo
> of it at
> http://ntlworld.photobox.co.uk/
> be all
> original, although the spacing between the sprockets is wider
> than I
> would have expected to find on a 4 or 5 speed hub. Can
> anyone please
> tell me anything about this hub, particularly what period it
> was from,
> and if it was designed for any special application.
>
> Peter Brown. Lincolnshire. England
>
>
>
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