If you were going to hammer the freewheel a lot, presumably having more thread in contact would be longer lasting (say for MTB or BMX) than having a bit of the freewheel's thread unused, overhanging where the fixed lockring thread is.
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If you were going to hammer the freewheel a lot, presumably having more thread in contact would be longer lasting (say for MTB or BMX) than having a bit of the freewheel's thread unused, overhanging where the fixed lockring thread is.