Originally Posted by
dave35
As a fall/winter project, I'm going to be upgrading my new-to-me-this-year-but-probably-from-about-1990 Bianchi Sport SX to semi-modern standards, mainly because freewheels are getting hard to come by and close-ratio freewheels are no longer made.
Moving to 9 speed will be a huge improvement from your current 6 speed set up but if your real reason for switching is the availability of freewheels, you might be surprised what you can still get. Sunrace makes a 13-25 7 speed freewheel for $15:
http://www.universalcycles.com/shopp...&category=1665
Interloc appears to offer close ratio (13-24) freewheels in 6 and 7 speed variants here:
http://store.interlocracing.com/fr76and5sp.html