Bikes have been very, very rare on the ground at GW for the last year or two; even the old Huffy and Sears and JC Higgins coaster brake bikes are rare, let alone 3 speeds and derailleur bikes. All I've seen for the last year or so is bottom feeder, pseud-Mountain Bikes -- the kind with Astabulas or steel "cotterless" cranks. Very odd. I don't know if the fixie/city bike fad has emptied the waters or if resellers have clued in as they have done for cowboy boots.
Every time I think about such a wheel, I bethink myself and realize that I have the solution in one of my parts boxes: a Surley Dingle 2-fer cog, 17/20, to put on the flip side of my hubs. That would give me 66" and 56" gears in addition to the standard 75" on the gofast, 65" and 55" on the Riv commuter. I already have a Dingle on the Motobecane where the 17t is the main cog (for a 67" gear) and where I've not yet bothered to shift to the 20 (57"). On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Scott G. <sco...@primax.com> wrote: > > > On Mar 22, 11:40 am, PATRICK MOORE > > I keep thinking that I ought to get a multispeed rear wheel for at least > one > > of my fixies, but it would be a hub gear wheel that I could, largely, > just > > shove in the dropouts and ride. > > Sturmey AW hubs are at the local Goodwill, you just have to haul away > the bike. > > I had a Trek 412 setup with an AW for a while, the gearing is not as > dumb as you'd > think, at least for a club rider. The evil neutral problem would show > up sometimes. > > The current AW-NIG, have no neutral. > A Rohloff grade FM hub, that actually would stay in low gear would be > great. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at patrickmo...@resumespecialties.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
