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Originally Posted by HillRider
As Sixty Fiver noted, it's a freewheel hub and cannot be made to accept cassettes. Depending on the distance between the locknut faces, it will accept a 5-speed freewheel (120 mm) or 6 and 7-speed freewheels (126 mm). It also has nutted axles which implies it's not a very high quality wheel and you should pay very little for it.
Since when were nutted axles the determinant for "quality" wheels?

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