trail-blazer
Retro Guru
Nothing too exorbitant, though, as I got the bike for nowt. 
Trying to get a 70s French road bike up and running again. Last piece of the puzzle is the freewheel. It came with a close ratio 6 speed (max 18t) freewheel but it is too wide and the axle has been spaced out on the drive side to make it fit the frame . Even then, you still have to pull the ends apart to get the wheel in. :facepalm:
The wheel isn't correctly centred, due to this, and packing out the other side isn't really an option without cold-setting the frame. I would prefer to return it back to 5 speed and avoid any more faff.
I don't like to push too big of a gear, if it can be avoided, (knees ) so looking for something 23t or above.
The Pellissier large flange hubs are one of the better parts of the bike so I don't really want to change them so I'm stuck with French threading.
The original freewheel isn't up to much, unfortunately.
Trying to get a 70s French road bike up and running again. Last piece of the puzzle is the freewheel. It came with a close ratio 6 speed (max 18t) freewheel but it is too wide and the axle has been spaced out on the drive side to make it fit the frame . Even then, you still have to pull the ends apart to get the wheel in. :facepalm:
The wheel isn't correctly centred, due to this, and packing out the other side isn't really an option without cold-setting the frame. I would prefer to return it back to 5 speed and avoid any more faff.
I don't like to push too big of a gear, if it can be avoided, (knees
) so looking for something 23t or above.The Pellissier large flange hubs are one of the better parts of the bike so I don't really want to change them so I'm stuck with French threading.
The original freewheel isn't up to much, unfortunately.
