Perfect chainline? We don't need no stinking perfect chainline. 3 mm either way ain't goin' to make a difference, even with 1/8" chains and certainly not with modern bushingless chains.
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Philip Williamson < philip.william...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 25, 2:11 pm, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 13:07 -0600, PATRICK MOORE wrote: > ... > > > I asked Phil once if they would make me a fixed hub that would accept > > > 3 cogs, to give, say, 80", 70" and 60" gears, more or less. They will > > > do that but the price quoted me some 5 years ago was $400. But a QR > > > rear wheel with two or three cogs on the same side would be > > > interesting, if expensive. > > > > How do you do that and maintain a perfect chain line? > > Three rings*, or just shine the perfect chainline. > > A 44t ring and a 17/21 dingle cog with a 15t flip gives you those > exact gears on a 35mm 700c tire. Patrick would need a 50t ring on his > 559x25 tires. Much cheaper than a Phil hub, and much lighter than an > S3X. I expect to find my biases confirmed in favor of fixed dingle > (tringle?) setups, but I'm still infatuated with weird gear hubs. > > *110/74, TA rings, cassette/cogs with Surly Fixxer. > > No pretense of science, > Philip > > Philip Williamson > www.biketinker.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. > > -- 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.
