Originally Posted by
Hondo6
This was the original question (emphasis added):
Wasn't aware of that one. But it appears to be a freewheel, not a cassette, so it doesn't exactly address [MENTION=400532]Sy Reene[/MENTION] 's question above.
That may indeed be a second example, provided it came from a Maillard cassette vice a freewheel. (I believe some of their cassettes did use a 3-spline pattern, but my Maillard freewheel/cassette knowledge is rather scant.) But if so I think the Shimano example I posted may predate it, since it dates to the 5-speed Uniglide era (introduced 1979/1980).
I guess these are examples, but don't see either A) why the 'dork' portion is so much larger than the largest cog, or B) why it required using some of the area that teeth would have been.
I've got one of the Prestacycle Uniblock cassettes. Something like this tech to add on an elegant dork ring might have some appeal (at least for the MTB crowd)
