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From: thielges@uiuccsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Why a front freewheel?(clarifica - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 22:29:24 EST
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uiuccsb!thielges    Mar 19 17:00:00 1984

A bike with a front freewheel has the freewheel (the thing that slips and
goes click-click-click.... while you coast) mounted on the same axel as
the chainrings and a fixed hub on the rear cluster where most bikes have
their freewheel.  Everything else more or less looks the same as a normal
10 speed bike.  The effect of this F-F setup is to keep the chain moving
whenever the bicycle is moving whether coasting or pedaling.  The chain
is still on normal bikes while coasting.
   You would probably not even know a bicycle had a front freewheel unless
you looked closely at it or rode it.
					Bart Thielges