Originally Posted by LóFarkas
That's one funny machine... I don't really see why one would put the shifter and brake lever on the same side, but hey, the crank is on the wrong side, too!
All of my bikes have the front brake lever on the right. I explain why at:
http://sheldonbrown.com/brakturn
If I put the shifter on the left it would look weird...can't have that! ;-)
Originally Posted by FarHorizon
And I thought I was weird!!! You covered it all! Left hand drive, ridiculously big chain ring, light weight frame with a ton of hanging accessories, goofy handlebars, and to top it all off - (the pièce de résistance) FENDERS! sacré bleu!
Don't all serious cyclists who don't live in the desert have fenders? ;-) Fenders and lights are the accessories that let you tell the serious cyclists from the fair-weather diletanttes!
Originally Posted by GreenLightNeddy
1) Are your pedals now opposite-threaded? ie LH thread on right, RH thread on left.
2) What happens if you're barrelling along in high gear and you accidentally knock the shift lever into
a lower gear? Does it only shift under light load? Or destroy the hub? Or the rider?
1) Yes. It is a tandem crank.
2) Sturmey-Archer hubs tend to upshift easier than they downshift, this has never happened to me, though the opposite has. The jumps aren't so big anyway--the "C" in "ASC" stands for "Close ratio."
Sheldon "Why Not?" Brown
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