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Old 03-02-17 | 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Scrodzilla
If it's a friction shifter, you can probably use a 6-speed freewheel without much fuss.
Except that a regular 6-speed freewheel won't fit on a 5-speed wheel with 120mm dropout spacing, which was the standard at that time. It will be necassary to use a narrow spaced freewheel such as a Suntour Ultra 6 and a narrow chain such as a SRAM PC 870 8 speed chain.
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