Thread: Wierd freewheel
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Old 01-29-09 | 11:14 AM
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Little-Acorn
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Bikes: '72 Schwinn Sports Tourer, '73 Schwinn Super Sport, '79 Schwinn Twinn Sport 10sp tandem

Freewheels with skiptooth cogs like that on the two largest gears, came standard on the Schwinn Sports Tourer brazed-frame road bike of the 1970s. My parents bought one new for my brother in 1972, and it had such a freewheel. My brother currently has no interest in it, and it resides in my garage when I'm not riding it around the local lake bikepath.

I figure there's an even chance that that one on Ebay, came off a Sports Tourer. I don't know what other bikes they came on (The ST's near twin, the Super Sport, came with a 14-32 that has 32 teeth on the largest cog, not 16). There was Schwinn Superior of the same era, basically a ST without a kickstand and with downtube shifters. Don't know if that one had the skiptooth freewheel or not.
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