Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - 3 ratios, 2 chains, 1 crazy hack

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caloso
08-03-07, 02:43 PM
From the font of bikey goodness, www.SheldonBrown.com, the fixed-fixed-free bike. (http://sheldonbrown.com/bichain-fixed-free.html)

http://sheldonbrown.com/bichain/images/bichain.jpg

bonechilling
08-03-07, 02:53 PM
I hope that one day all of Sheldon's crazy bikes are preserved in a Sheldon Brown museum of some sort.
hockeyteeth
08-03-07, 06:17 PM
Oh man. I'd like to work on Sturmy Archer hubs now.

chunts
08-03-07, 06:33 PM
that makes my head spin
crushkilldstroy
08-03-07, 08:34 PM
I tried to figure this out and I'm pretty sure I just pulled a muscle in my brain.
dlandis
08-03-07, 09:04 PM
In a way it's surprising that more unique/innovative gear mechanisms have never caught on in any way. The fact that this is *so* unique to people is almost more weird than the bike itself.
blickblocks
08-03-07, 09:29 PM
I hope that one day all of Sheldon's crazy bikes are preserved in a Sheldon Brown museum of some sort.

+1
Astronomical
08-03-07, 09:31 PM
what.
crushkilldstroy
08-03-07, 09:40 PM
In a way it's surprising that more unique/innovative gear mechanisms have never caught on in any way.

Why would they? If you can make something that does the job in one step, why use something that does the same job in 5? It's like trying to build a better mousetrap.

Not trying to downplay the coolness of this, I just don't really understand this comment.
thequickfix
08-03-07, 10:08 PM
(cough)

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=326493
caloso
08-04-07, 05:00 PM
(cough)

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=326493

Sorry about that. Still, that's only one thread per chain.
dlandis
08-06-07, 12:49 PM
Why would they? If you can make something that does the job in one step, why use something that does the same job in 5? It's like trying to build a better mousetrap.

Not trying to downplay the coolness of this, I just don't really understand this comment.

If you want to understand the comment, just look at your own analogy. Have you really only seen one type of mousetrap?