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Old 09-12-09 | 08:55 AM
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FBinNY
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Bikes: too many bikes from 1967 10s (5x2)Frejus to a Sumitomo Ti/Chorus aluminum 10s (10x2), plus one non-susp mtn bike I use as my commuter

Screw-on freewheels wobble because it's almost impossible to make perfectly aligned threads on both the hubs and freewheel bodies. That means that the freewheel's axis of rotation is slightly mis-aligned with that of the hub shell, and it therefore wobbles slightly when the hub is spun. It's perfectly normal, isn't fixable and doesn't affect function unless it's extreme.

Cassettes of the most common designs wobble for similar reasons of axis mis-alignment, and generally only those supported on the axle on their own bearings and independent of the hub shell are wobble free.
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