Aaron Chase "neutral" gear?
08-20-05, 03:17 PM
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Aaron Chase "neutral" gear?
Just saw one of these for the first time today in a catalogue I was browsing... just curious if anyone has experience with it, and how exactly it works. It claims to replace your bottom three cassette cogs for a neutral gear to allow a faux-freewheeling when rolling backwards. I can't quite figure out how it works though, and how you would shift into it mid stall to roll back out of a move...?
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08-20-05, 03:28 PM
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You would likely sat the deraileur to loose the bottom 2 gears. This is like an overbuilt spacer to replace the first 3 gears on your cassette. You shift into postition and it works like a neutral gear. I know guys that have made them with plumbers pvc pipe
08-20-05, 07:30 PM
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Do they give your chain more wear that usual? because I reckon slipping on a surface wouldn't be good for a chain, but theh again lots of that trials stuff would give chain premature wear. Oh and using one of those is taking the easy way out!
08-20-05, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Maelstrom
To ride fakie.
08-20-05, 08:14 PM
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I wonder if they make a cassette freecoaster.. lol
08-21-05, 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by dirtjumpP.1
i actually perfer pedaling backwards while riding fakie, it helps control speed, and balance
08-21-05, 12:23 PM
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well aaron chase could probably do all his tricks with out a chain, so i dont think it really matters for him
08-21-05, 12:34 PM
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Would be a ***** to pedal kick though hhahaha
