Originally Posted by
SnowJob
Hey. Anyone ride an mtb with a 2 speed kick shift hub? I've been thinking about it for my monocog. It's nice to have low gearing for the trails, but it takes so damn long to get to the trails with that gearing. I'm just worried about the thing shifting on me when I coasting or bunnyhopping or whatever.
I'm going to put one on the klunker I'm building; hadn't thought of it for MTB until your post but it seems to have merit. The gears should be robust enough for that kind of abuse - - they survived a lot of paperboy antics.
You'll want to check the hub-spacing and cog placement as far as chainline. My son recently put a singlespeed coaster brake hub on an old MTB frame and it worked out alright. IIRC, the kickback throw was pretty generous to get the shift to happen, so you should be OK if you're not backpedaling too far to level your feet out for maneuvers.