I highly recommend using the ENO in dinglespeed form, if possible. Does a fixed dingle cog exist?. I had this set up on a bike some years ago, 16/18 freewheel in back and 38/35 double chainring. You need White Ind cranks too, but those are definitely worth it. This system was super easy to change out on a ride, I would use the larger gear for around town riding and then switch to the lower to tackle hills. No rear wheel removal necessary. You are forced into specific gearing, which may be a potential down side if you like to customize ratios. Of course, with horizontal dropouts you don't need the eccentric hub, and as long as there isn't more than a one or two tooth difference in gearing your brakes won't be an issue.
On Friday, February 1, 2019 at 6:31:19 PM UTC-5, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > Backstory: Before I swapped the dropouts on my Hunqapillar to horizontal > I, and Grant, talked with White Ind. about using their eccentric hub for > fixed gear bikepacking. We were both told absolutely not, it will fail. > > Update: Grant recently followed up with them and asked specifically what > would fail. Nothing in the hub, it turns out, they were concerned about > aluminum dropouts, despite knowing this is on a Rivendell, thus has to be > steel. Sigh. > > The horizontal dropout on Boots ain’t happening, so I have questions about > the ENO hub for those who have experience with one (speculation doesn’t > help here, actual experience only please): > > - What is the process for tightening the chain? > - What would that process look like with a dingle cog 2x2 set-up? I > presume I’d have to drop the rear wheel out, shift the chain, put the wheel > back, then tighten the chain. Keep in mind the bike is 85 lbs total and I > likely need to lay it down to change gears. > > Anything else I should think about? > > With abandon, > Patrick > > www.CatholicHalos.org > www.MindYourHeadCoop.org > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
