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11-25-12, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by John E

You can also find individual replacement cogs for old SunTour freewheels, so if the body is s still good, don't toss that old SunTour just yet. I like to replace 5-speed w/ ultra 6-speed units, having done this 12-speed conversion on both Capos and the Peugeot.

Thanks, John:

Unfortunately, I ended up selling that freewheel with the broken tooth on Ebay about two years ago. Had I known at the time that individual cogs could be swapped out, I would've hung on to it.

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