Prototype White Industries hub..

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Tracerboy

· #3 · Jul 12, 2004

That's nuthin'. There's companies out there what make similar devices with as many as ten (10) gears fer the back end of yer bike. 'Course, then it ain't much of a singlespeed, then, is it...?

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I'm working on a prototype device that will allow one to switch between mulitiple gears while riding from a lever on the handlebars! It is going to be a revolution in the SS world. I am currently looking for a name. Currently I just call it "The-rail-you're-riding-isn't-a-SS-anymore".

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Eltbee

· #5 · Jul 12, 2004

eSSq said:
That's nuthin'. There's companies out there what make similar devices with as many as ten (10) gears fer the back end of yer bike. 'Course, then it ain't much of a singlespeed, then, is it...?

Great minds think alike?

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appleSSeed

· #6 · Jul 12, 2004

haha, no doubt. I think they already make these in many different gear ranges..haha..

what a load

if you have one of these, you've officially "lost the way"

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ernesto_from_Wisconsin

· #7 · Jul 12, 2004

idea behind it

eSSq said:
That's nuthin'. There's companies out there what make similar devices with as many as ten (10) gears fer the back end of yer bike. 'Course, then it ain't much of a singlespeed, then, is it...?

if you use the DOS, you have to use 2 rings up front. No shifting mechanisms are needed, just your dirty fingers.

Lets just say that your trailhead is 10 miles away, and youhave to ride on ass_phalt to get there. Move the chain to the tall gear, still SS. You get to the trailhead, do another adjustment, you are ready to SS with a short gear.

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Tracerboy

· #8 · Jul 12, 2004

ernesto_from_Wisconsin said:
if you use the DOS, you have to use 2 rings up front. No shifting mechanisms are needed, just your dirty fingers.
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Let's say I'm a pretty boy who doesn't like to get his hands dirty (not far from the truth)... shouldn't I just ride a geary? I mean, if I'm going to be shifting gears in any fashion, shouldn't I make it as easy as possible?

I'm not a singlespeed evangelist or anything. I don't have any geared MTB's but I do ride and love my geared road bike. I'm just saying that If you're going to shift, don't be ashamed of it, just do it, and do it right.

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Eltbee

· #9 · Jul 12, 2004

ernesto_from_Wisconsin said:
if you use the DOS, you have to use 2 rings up front. No shifting mechanisms are needed, just your dirty fingers.

Lets just say that your trailhead is 10 miles away, and youhave to ride on ass_phalt to get there. Move the chain to the tall gear, still SS. You get to the trailhead, do another adjustment, you are ready to SS with a short gear.

I wonder if there will be a new race category for this kind of set up.

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Tracerboy

· #10 · Jul 12, 2004

Ha! LMFAO!

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TimT

· #11 · Jul 12, 2004

Suntour and ACS have already made dual freewheels for BMX. I think you can still get the ACS ones and every now and then a Suntour comes up on e-bay.

Tim
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gpsser

· #12 · Jul 12, 2004

eSSq said:
Let's say I'm a pretty boy who doesn't like to get his hands dirty (not far from the truth)...

Pretty?? As in West Hollywood pretty? Or pretty as in backwoods purdy? I knew I should have been afraid of those comments on the SART ride.

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Tracerboy

· #13 · Jul 12, 2004

gpsser said:
Pretty?? As in West Hollywood pretty? Or pretty as in backwoods purdy? I knew I should have been afraid of those comments on the SART ride.

Well, I did wear some FABULOUS Gordon Rush sandals to the Ahmanson on Saturday evening for Thoroughly Modern Millie.

You didn't have anything to worry about on SART... you were too far off the front, though lookin' fab yourself in those Castelli knickers. It was Mr. Pink Bike at the back of the pack who would have needed to watch out for hisself.

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a nice cake

· #14 · Jul 12, 2004

appleSSeed said:
haha, no doubt. I think they already make these in many different gear ranges..haha..

what a load

if you have one of these, you've officially "lost the way"

how is this philosophically any different from having a flipflop hub or more than one size cog for your cassette hub? Different areas call for different ratios. Personally, I like the idea very much, if it could be used with a single front ring. It's probably the only way i'd consider running a threaded/fw hub.

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aka brad

· #15 · Jul 12, 2004 (Edited)

Because it is..

a nice cake said:
how is this philosophically any different from having a flipflop hub or more than one size cog for your cassette hub? Different areas call for different ratios. Personally, I like the idea very much, if it could be used with a single front ring. It's probably the only way i'd consider running a threaded/fw hub.

The begining of multi-speed derailleur bikes started with multi-speed freewheels. To put a multi-speed freewheel on a single speed is the philosophical equivalent of the guy who wanted to convert a Kona Unit into a geared bike. You could, but who would want to? Personally I ve never been a fan of flip-flop hubs on MTB's and in order to change the cog on a cassette hub you have to take it apart. I may be single minded, but I like the idea of one speed; one front chain ring and one rear cog or freewheel. Anything else is still a bicycle (and that's a wonderful thing!!), but it's not SS.

Still, I saw the setup with the double front chainring at the Sea Otter and it looked pretty cool. Kinda an outside the box idea.

1G1G, Brad

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c0jones

· #16 · Jul 13, 2004

2-speed hub is not a new idea

In the mid-70s I had a Schwinn (Typhoon, I think) with a 2-speed coaster-brake hub... no shifter... just back-pedal to switch to the other gear.

The earliest 2-speed hub was made around 1903

C Jones

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aka brad

· #17 · Jul 13, 2004

Outside another box..

c0jones said:
In the mid-70s I had a Schwinn (Typhoon, I think) with a 2-speed coaster-brake hub... no shifter... just back-pedal to switch to the other gear.

The earliest 2-speed hub was made around 1903

C Jones

What I meant was the idea of changing the gear ratio with a double freewheel and matching double chainring to keep the chain length the same. I know some follks have figured it out on their own, but this is the first OEM set I've seen.

Brad

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