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What is the Smallest tooth count for a free wheel? Like for a BMX?

Old 05-20-10, 06:27 PM
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What is the Smallest tooth count for a free wheel? Like for a BMX?

Can i get some help? Cause i have a fixie BMX and now i want to put on a new rim with SS but i used to have 24/9 but i dont have that hub anymore.

So what is the smallest screw on freewheel?
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15t

it gets smaller if you have a proprietary BMX hub for a BMX bike, but i'm ASSUMING you don't or you would be in the BMX forum... right?
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err monkey ****s. i dont want to buy a new rim for 100 bucks so i can get 9tooth
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Google search popped out a thread from a couple years ago. 15 tooth is the smallest thread-on freewheel you can get. If anybody says anything smaller, they're thinking of a BMX driver, not a freewheel. Here it is:

https://www.amazon.com/ACS-32-Inch-Cl.../dp/B000AXXA7M

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you'd have better luck in the BMX forum....
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Originally Posted by Snacklord
you'd have better luck in the BMX forum....
Not really they have no clue sometimes. All they no is that when you fall it hurts,
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Originally Posted by PistaRider311
Google search popped out a thread from a couple years ago. 15 tooth is the smallest thread-on freewheel you can get. If anybody says anything smaller, they're thinking of a BMX driver, not a freewheel. Here it is:

https://www.amazon.com/ACS-32-Inch-Cl.../dp/B000AXXA7M
That's most likely for a metric thread. (Most BMX hubs for freewheels, have metric threading on one side, and English threading on the other) Freewheels have been available down to 14 tooth for metric thread for as long as I can remember. Odyssey and a few other companies are now making 13 tooth freewheels, but they only fit metric threaded hubs.

For an English, 16tooth is about as small as you're gonna get. I'd suggest staying from the ACS freewheels, unless you don't mind having to lube the thing before you use it.

AC Racing makes 15tooth freewheel that fits regular English threaded hubs, but I've not heard good things about their reliability.
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