Brad Luecke wrote:
> I was going thru a bunch of my old bike parts and found a real odd ball. A
> five speed Metric (French Threaded) Suntour freewheel body. No cogs, just
> the body. I believe I used it on a Gitane tandem I owned in the early
> 70's. I have no idea why it has no cogs, except I put a Phil Wood 48 spoke
> rear hub on the bike because we broke so many spokes. I may have used the
> cogs on a new English FW body.
>
> ANYWAY, my question, is this thing as rare a hen's teeth and desired by the
> Francophiles of the world or is it a piece of antiquated junk that nobody
> wants?
They're not all that common (I've owned a couple), but are really only useful to people with metric thread hubs so don't bank on retiring on what you might get for it. My Gitane tandem came with an Atom "Tandem" freewheel (4 pawls instead of the usual 2); did your SunTour FW come with the tandem or was it a later modification?
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John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA