01-20-2005, 01:30 AM
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| Guest | Re: freehub in French
"Sheldon Brown" <captbike@sheldonbrown.com> schreef in bericht
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> PeteVine wrote:
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> > What's the correct name for the freehub in French? To avoid any
> > confusion I mean the part that the cassette locks onto.
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> The Freehub is the entire rear hub, "moyeu cassette" or "moyeu k7."
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> I think you're asking about the "Freehub body" which is the part with
> the ratchet mechanism, and the external splines where the sprockets
> slide on.
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> This would be "corps de cassette" or "corps de k7."
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> "k7" is a punny French way of spelling "cassette."
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> The letter "k" is pronounced "kah" and the number "7" is "sept." The
> "p" is basically silent, so "kah sept" sounds basically the same as
> "cassette"
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K7 is in French what K9 is in English
Bert L from NL (that's in EU)
(wanna see a picture of my K9 friend and of the K7 I play in my K7 player?)
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