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Originally Posted by SurferRosa
Can you get them without the ugly big cog?
Not that I know of!

But if I were in the market for freewheels at all, I've considered masking off the smaller cogs and spraying or brushing some kind of copper/brass-colored paint on the biggest cog. That way, even if not an exact match, it would look way better. The cogs on SunTour freewheels didn't always match exactly either.

I needed a 5-speed a few years ago for a keeper, and found a good looking one in China, like this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/18534047304...temCondition=3

Not ramped, but works fine for my grocery getter.
Interesting! Are these NOS from [checks vintage-trek.com...] 1995, or recent production?
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