Steve P nails it. Many of these old-skool design ideas might fill a niche within a niche within a niche. Given the previously mentioned issues with freewheels, and not many upsides except low cost, the people still using them are devoted antiquarians, those who spec dept store bikes, and those of us in the business of fixing 1970s bike boom bikes. It's hard to see a new $50+ freewheel being a hit with any of those groups. And freewheel connoisseurs are not wearing out freewheels fast enough to be much of a target market. Obviously Shimano and the smaller companies who make FWs abandoned the high-end segment of that market years ago.
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