Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiuccsb!thielges From: thielges@uiuccsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: Re: Why a front freewheel?(clarifica - (nf) Message-ID: <6261@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 22:29:24 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6261 Posted: Mon Mar 19 22:29:24 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 01:03:25 EST Lines: 13 #R:saturn:-200100:uiuccsb:16200006:000:611 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