Clark W. Griswold
Join Date: Mar 2014
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Bikes: Foundry Chilkoot Ti W/Ultegra Di2, Salsa Timberjack Ti, Cinelli Mash Work RandoCross Fun Time Machine, 1x9 XT Parts Hybrid, Co-Motion Cascadia, Specialized Langster, Phil Wood Apple VeloXS Frame (w/DA 7400), R+M Supercharger2 Rohloff, Habanero Ti 26
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Freewheels on modern bikes usually mean something of very very low quality. Back in the day you could build and rebuild a freewheel in whatever gears you wanted and shops would have spare cogs for a freewheel and could provide a lot of service for them. These days I would bet the modern freewheel isn't easily torn apart and put back together like the old stuff and certainly is better off replaced for $20. It could also have been broken as a lot of cheaper modern parts are designed to be replaced rather than repaired. Especially the no-name stuff a lot of that is designed to be as cheap as possible, those sometimes need to be broken off.
If your freewheel was a nicer 50s-80s then I would send it to Freewheelspa.com and see if he can save it.