Originally Posted by
Salubrious
That doesn't look mangled so much as it looks really worn. A definitive lack of oil would be my first surmise...
You never know how a 50 year old bike has been treated over the years.
This one came to me with a very tight hub that wouldn't shift.
The standard adjusting/flushing methods didn't work and I opened it
up to find the sun gear ground down to almost nothing.
The rest of the hub seamed fine.....