Originally Posted by gorn
But normally freewheels are just screwed on by hand and then the pedalling motion torques them down, if the freewheel operated the opposite way on normal threads, then you'd have to torque down with a freewheel tool, and hope you never unscrew it when pedalling (Loctite/JBWeld?
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Holy cow, that's a good point, total oversight on my part. If no one else finds out and posts about threading etc. on left-side drive freewheels, I'll find out when I stop in the shop tuesday, the other mechanic there knows way too much about old bmx stuff, and I know another guy who works there on weekends actually has and rides a left-side drive bmx.