Originally Posted by
old's'cool
I do wonder though, what possessed Shimano to adopt a crappy 2-prong design when they already had at least one perfectly good splined freewheel body design? And for that matter, if they were going to copy an established design, they could have copied Atom's spline design.
Indeed. Zeus, at least, tried to accommodate as many as possible by having their freewheel accept both a Regina two-prong remover and the far superior Atom spline remover.