Oh shit, I just broke free my Vintage Suntour from a 70's Sekai with your SWEET VIDEO on in the background! HELL YEAH!!! this baby is going on a FRESHY Wheelset. DUDE!! I'm never gonna forget that MMMMMMM!@ MMMMM@@@@!!! YES!!!
I kept busting spokes on the cassette side every month and taking it to the shop at $15-20 a pop to fix. Your videos and tips are great and I've saved quite a bit doing the repairs myself. Keep up the good work!!!
Thanks Bikeman, You saved me lots of time while struggling to remove this FR2 freewheel. Now I can get on with my project. Love the tip putting the tool in the vice. Keep up the good work. Your advice is priceless!!
Love the dialogue. Came for the Suntour 2 prong removal as have an old 70's wheel. Suntour 7sp on an OFMEGA hub. Fortunately I have a vice so will employ the lessons learned here today. All power to youtube and the contributors, remember in the old days when you had to know some one or go to the library and hope they had a book on the subject, that was at least 10years out of date....?
Thank you for posting this video. I am now a member of the "Ouyah!" club :-) after using Plus-Gas penetrating oil for a about a week then using a Park FR-2 exactly as you showed I was able to undo the gear cassette and can now fix the broken spokes in my ancient '70s UK road bike. The key for me was identifying the gear cassette after cleaning several decades of oily grime from the cassette finding "suntour" then finding your video on youtube whoohoo!
Dealing with some recent rubbing/noise coming from my late 70's Kuwahara Apollo. LBS told me not to bother taking it apart because sometimes you won't be able to get it back together. Hoping it is just lack of grease and lots of grime, and not a broken Pawl.
Doing great things Bikeman, lovin' all your posts. Rebuilding my 70's Raleigh Grand Prix - hoping that freewheel frees. Would love to ride w a One Less Car T!
Well it slipped the first time on the vise and nicked the inner gap. Then I really tightened the bold holding on the FR-2 and it worked the 2nd time. Thanks dude A 1987 Bianchi mountain bike that I bought brand new, love, and it is still in good shape. But I am wondering about the inner cassette parts. How and should I take that apart to grease inside? Or just replace the cassette?
I have a suntour freewheel/cassette not sure which. it looks like there is 4 notches but it also has a lockring, not tools atm got a cassette lockring reover coming soon any idea if this is a saccette or a freewheel?
Hey bike man I have and old school beast of an 12 speed I changed the rear wheel to one of racers style but I didn't think it can hold up against this 260 frame of mine do I need to change the size of tire
Oh shit, I just broke free my Vintage Suntour from a 70's Sekai with your SWEET VIDEO on in the background! HELL YEAH!!! this baby is going on a FRESHY Wheelset. DUDE!! I'm never gonna forget that MMMMMMM!@ MMMMM@@@@!!! YES!!!
I kept busting spokes on the cassette side every month and taking it to the shop at $15-20 a pop to fix. Your videos and tips are great and I've saved quite a bit doing the repairs myself. Keep up the good work!!!
Thanks Bikeman,
You saved me lots of time while struggling to remove this FR2 freewheel. Now I can get on with my project. Love the tip putting the tool in the vice. Keep up the good work. Your advice is priceless!!
Love the dialogue. Came for the Suntour 2 prong removal as have an old 70's wheel. Suntour 7sp on an OFMEGA hub. Fortunately I have a vice so will employ the lessons learned here today. All power to youtube and the contributors, remember in the old days when you had to know some one or go to the library and hope they had a book on the subject, that was at least 10years out of date....?
Thank you for posting this video.
I am now a member of the "Ouyah!" club :-) after using Plus-Gas penetrating oil for a about a week then using a Park FR-2 exactly as you showed I was able to undo the gear cassette and can now fix the broken spokes in my ancient '70s UK road bike.
The key for me was identifying the gear cassette after cleaning several decades of oily grime from the cassette finding "suntour" then finding your video on youtube
whoohoo!
Thanks for the reminder on how to do this. Have a 1983 Bianchi Limited that I will never sell.
I got an old 80s panasonic dx1000 which had one of these. Thanks for the video! I wouldn't have thought of using a vice for something like that
@BrownTypewriter I was gettin worried....We haven't had a hater in a long time... THX YOU MADE MY DAY... God Bless and peace be with you and yours
Thanks for putting this up, I was having so much hassle with my old bike.
Thanks for the video. The freewheel came right off when I put it in the vise.
If you have the freewheel remover tool, just put an impact wrench to it. 1/1000th of a second - done.
Dealing with some recent rubbing/noise coming from my late 70's Kuwahara Apollo. LBS told me not to bother taking it apart because sometimes you won't be able to get it back together. Hoping it is just lack of grease and lots of grime, and not a broken Pawl.
Definitely going to get an FR-2. Had to dismantle the entire freewheel and use a pipe wrench in combination with a vice to get that thing off.
So glad we could help. Thanks for the comment
These videos are the best! Thanks!
Doing great things Bikeman, lovin' all your posts. Rebuilding my 70's Raleigh Grand Prix - hoping that freewheel frees. Would love to ride w a One Less Car T!
Exactly what i was looking for, i tried taking apart the rims on my 1984 Univega Gran Rally and i had a modern remover that did not fit
Glad we could help it is easy when you know how. THX for the comment
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot!
Well it slipped the first time on the vise and nicked the inner gap. Then I really tightened the bold holding on the FR-2 and it worked the 2nd time. Thanks dude A 1987 Bianchi mountain bike that I bought brand new, love, and it is still in good shape. But I am wondering about the inner cassette parts. How and should I take that apart to grease inside? Or just replace the cassette?
gotta give her a real HOOOYAHHH!!
Are all 2-prong freewheels the same? I have a wheel with a FiR hub and Fir index cassette. It has a 2-prong freewheel.
@Bzzzpuk Man o man I'm gonna get a big head..THX For the comment
12 y nobody would imagine an entire world pandemic and fkng world on Europe. For your comment reader wish you be safe and healthy
@troloolm Thank you so much
do you recommand to put freewheel in varsol to wach it or is it not recommended
thank you
If i wanted to turn an old wheel like that into a single speed would any bmx freelwheel work?
I have a suntour freewheel/cassette not sure which. it looks like there is 4 notches but it also has a lockring, not tools atm got a cassette lockring reover coming soon any idea if this is a saccette or a freewheel?
Hey bike man I have and old school beast of an 12 speed I changed the rear wheel to one of racers style but I didn't think it can hold up against this 260 frame of mine do I need to change the size of tire
Nice info, is it compatible with shimano ? Thanks, like it :)
U DA MAN
here you go
Bike Repair - How To De-Gunk A Stuck Freehub "Make It GO"
good luck
i broke the removal tool, its not an fr2, what do i do now?
how in the hell old is that wheel
OOOHHH YEAHHHH1`@@@!!!!!
What's your website for I can buy this
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Thanks bat er a bike man.
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How's the rest of the wheel lookin?? Maybe whole new wheel time?? easy for me to spend your money Ha ha. No sense fixin it if it aint broke
steel is real
wicked old
cassette not saccette,lol
i've never met an american who is low key...