John
Thanks. I recieved similar comments from others. I'm pretty sure this is the standard body, and was not original to the tandem. I vaugely remember having a tandem body, it had a "T" stamped on it as I recall. This one has an "M" stamped on it.
The tandem had a Atom(?) drum brake rear hub. I remember burning my fingers on it after a long down hill. But the worst part was the thin steel hub flanges and the raw power my brother and I had, broke spokes rountinely. We got really good at replacing spokes on the side of the road.
It also had a cottered crossover steel crank set. We were replacing cotterpins all of the time. I finally switched them to "out of phase" and that helped.
Thanks
Brad Luecke Columbia MO
>
> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 18:45:39 -0500
> From: John Thompson <johndthompson@gmail.com>
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR]French Freewheel Body
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?
>
> --
> John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
> Appleton WI USA
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