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Old 11-11-09 | 04:55 PM
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If I remember what John S Allen said many years ago, the AM was a medium-spaced gear hub and the AN was a narrow-spaced gear hub. Maybe I'd prefer the AM anyway.

So are you saying I can take an AW hub and replace the sun and planet gears from an AM and have an AN hub? That would be so cool!
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