Originally Posted by
pbass
You're missing my point. As I say, what intrigues me about this is, you're still singlespeeding when you're riding. The simplicity and purity (and yes, the limitation) of it is still there. It's just easier than replacing a rear cog to change up your gearing relatively quickly for different situations.
You're still single-speeding with a 3-speed hub too but it's much easier faster to get into a lower gear than it is to stop, and change the gear as the setup you talk about requires. That's almost as bad as in the days of yore when a bicyclist stopped at the bottom of a hill and then flipped their rear wheel to get at the samller cog.
Whatever floats your boat I guess. After all I have a 9-speed 11-19 teeth corncob on one of my MTBs.
Cheers