Phil: you are right, 80, 70 and 60 more or less; or even better, 75, 66 and 56 with what I already have at hand: 46 X 15 t setup now on the bike and the 17/20 Dingle in my cog box. Still an' all, it's sorta fun to make simple things complicated and expensive, no? At least, it costs more money!
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.
