Originally Posted by
tmh657
It's a 700c wheel which someone put on this big freewheel which would be for a MTB I guess and not for road use. I will put some Pb Blaster on it and do as suggested. I have a road freewheel to use on it. Maybe a 13-26 7 speed.
Thanks for the help. I will report back with results. And cny is correct, I think the oldest guy at the LBS is pushing 25, Lol.
I think you are missing the point. This is NOT a freewheel at all. A freewheel will NOT attach to this hub. It is a freehub with a mountain bike cassette.. Freehubs starting with these early Uniglides have taken over freewheels due to the inherent weakness present in freewheel axles. I misunderstood the original post, I thought that it was a mountain bike wheel with a 105 hub. I now understand that it is a road bike wheel that someone stuck a large tooth count mountain bike uniglide cassette onto.
You need to source up a 7 speed Uniglide cassette with the proper lockring cog. They have been obsolete for at least 20 years now. I *think* Hyperglide started coming out in the early 90's. A modern Hyperglide cassette won't work with these old freehubs because you can't use the externally threaded lockrings. I have one bike with a Uniglide close ratio road bike cassette.
However you can swap out the freehub bodies with a standard Uniglide freehub body and then use standard Uniglide cassettes. But that sounds like it might be above your knowledge and I would seek out the advice of a knowledgeable bike co-op or bike shop.
But in a nutshell, the word freewheel means nothing to these hubs, nothing about a freewheel will work on this hub.