Re: [CR] Campagnolo freewheel tool

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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:04:47 -0500
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Subject: Re: [CR] Campagnolo freewheel tool


Maybe it is because the Regina freewheels were still in widespread use then (though most took the splined remover by then) and Campy made a whole tool kit just for the freewheel, including tools to take apart the body.

See http://www.flickr.com/photos/49353569@N00/4029445028/

Bicycle Research made the Campy freewheel remover separately, for use in a vise or crescent wrench. It had the proper angled drivers. I've seen too many Campy freewheels ruined by using a Regina tool with straight drivers.

http://www.bicycletool.com/campagnolofreewheelremover.aspx

Interestingly, the Regina tool in the Campy large tool kit had drivers that were outboard of the center ring as well as inboard, so it doesn't work on a Regina freewheel as is. I ground them off of mine so it does. Anyone know why this was, or what it was for?

I remember being disappointed because they were the ld version of the tool, designed to fit old 2-prong Regina freewheels, ather than the new tool with the helical prongs for Campy's own reewheel which had recently been released. -- -John Thompson (john(AT)os2.dhs.org) Appleton WI USA

Bob Freeman
Elliott Bay Bicycles
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Seattle, WA 98121
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